CyberCrime & Doing Time

After a vigorous day of spamming a Fake Myspace Update Tool , the criminals behind this campaign have refocused their efforts back to the In...

Beginning about 90 minutes ago, the Zeus malware, also known as Zbot, began a new spam distribution campaign to infect more victims. The n...

Two of my friends today invited me to join "Million User" facebook groups. Not that it matters really, but the two groups were: P...

The FDIC spam campaign that we reported on yesterday in our story Fake FDIC Spam Campaign Spreads Zeus has already moved on to its next att...

The UAB Spam Data Mine is continuing to experience high volumes of spam claiming to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. FDIC...

I'm returned, sleep-deprived and jet-lagged, from back-to-back conferences in the Seattle area. First there was the Microsoft-hosted Di...

This week in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, an indictment was unsealed against Miguel Bell, Christopher Russell, Michael Merin, Karee...

The Avalanche Botnet, which has been spamming phishing pages, and most recently the IRS Zeus campaign, has returned to traditional phishing....

This morning I had a couple tweets from our friends at Arbor Networks. (I actually don't know who tweets their feed, but I always pictu...

Certain news searches on the Google News site today were pointing users to some troubling websites which seemed to be hosted by the "Ch...

All of our trap domains are seeing a new spam campaign today where the website being spammed actually SEEMS to be the email recipient's ...

After a couple days with no "IRS Zeus" spam, the flow of spam messages has restarted. The new spam messages are exactly like the ...

Adobe I'm not sure whose idea it was that we should be able to execute Javascript inside a PDF or Flash file, but we continue to see thi...

Yesterday the FBI began performing arrests of more than 100 individuals involved in a phishing investigation announced in the Central Distri...

An interesting phishing campaign has resulted in several news stories about stolen passwords. That got me digging in the UAB Spam Data Mine...