Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Koobface wrecks Search results

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One question that people often ask when we describe how millions of computers are infected with malware is "Why would anyone do that?...
Friday, July 24, 2009

From Russia, With Love . . . new Postcard spam spies on your PC

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Isn't it nice to have friends who send you postcards? The UAB Spam Data Mine is especially fortunate in that way. Beginning the evenin...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Cyber IN-Security: Ten Times More Computer Security Graduates needed for .gov jobs

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One hour ago at the National Press Club, the Partnership for Public Service presented its report "Cyber IN-Security: Strengthening the ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Twitter search leads to Naked Newscaster malware (Erin Andrews)

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Some folks saw this ABC News story yesterday, and sent me surprised questions that I hadn't blogged about it, so, here is the after-the-...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Spammers Abusing URL Shortening Services

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We've previously warned about the dangers of following "Tiny URLs" on Twitter. With only 140 characters to use in your messag...
Friday, July 03, 2009

Are You Ready for Independence Day Fireworks? Waledac is!

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Loyal Blog readers will know that the UAB Spam Data Mine has been tracking the Waledac spam campaigns since their onset. We've followe...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Michael Jackson headline used in Password Stealing scheme

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Last week we reported that a Fake Microsoft Critical Update was one of the top sources of active computer exploitation being delivered in t...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Two Quick Updates

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We blogged last week about the Fake Microsoft Update which was actually an attempt to infect visitors with ZBot in order to steal their ban...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Fake Twitter, LinkedIn, and ScribD pages lead to Fake AV

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Last week we were talking about how Twitter users are encouraged to blindly click on "shortened URLs" which could actually lead to...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Spam Crisis in China

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At the UAB Spam Data Mine, we continue to see that MOST of the spam we receive has ties to China. As an experiment this morning I looked at...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Swine Flu Pandemic (H1N1 Influenza) Leads to Increased Tamiflu Spam

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We received a media query yesterday about how the announcement by the World Health Organization that we are now at " Full Pandemic ...