CyberCrime & Doing Time

We haven't seen a new version of Waledac since Independence Day (July 4, 2009), but it looks like its back! I'm on vacation today, s...

As 2009 comes to a close I wanted to take a minute to thank all of the people who have been helpful to this blog this year, and to share bac...

The Avalanche botnet continues to send out spam for spreading malware and phishing. Its newest target is Spanish banking giant BBVA. We don...

On December 12th we covered a new "Visa.com" version of the Zeus distribution spam. (See story: Ongoing Visa Scam Drops Zeus Zbo...

(Update: 12JAN10 - Iranian Cyber Army Returns -- Target: Baidu.com ) #1 Search on Google in the past hour: "Iranian Cyber Army" ...

Big news from China with regards to their domain name registration policies. Readers of the blog know that I have regularly complained about...

I guess the UAB Spam Data Mine is having a bad day! Our VISA card is being used in Kuwait! Dear VISA card holder, A recent review of your t...

I blogged recently about the "Google Jobs" scammers who were abusing Twitter, Blogspot, Google Reader, and spaces.live.com by crea...

As Solomon said, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Eccles...

Webmasters from at least 90 online hosting providers are specifically targeted in the newest round of Avalanche phish. The spam emails that ...

Emails like this: You have received this e-mail because of the launching of State Vaccination H1N1 Program. You need to create your personal...

UPDATE 09DEC2009 - Google files suit against these guys - see @gcluley story for more. One of the most interesting spam campaigns in the pa...