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Beijing Olympic ticket scam shut down

Sue Marquette Poremba August 05, 2008

The U.S. federal courts shut down two websites that claimed to sell tickets to the Beijing Olympics, but instead scammed unsuspecting sports fans.

Backdoor scams emerge on phishing kits

Sue Marquette Poremba July 31, 2008

Nearly half of the live phishing kits identified online have backdoors designed to steal from the information thieves using them.

Storm Worm leverages FBI and Facebook in new attack

Sue Marquette Poremba July 29, 2008

A new malware campaign uses the FBI and Facebook as a ruse to trick users into downloading the Storm Worm trojan.

The Rustock botnet spams again

Chuck Miller July 25, 2008

A large-scale botnet called Rustock is forwarding spam with shocking headlines to exploit users and increase its spread.

Exploit code released for DNS vulnerability

Dan Kaplan July 24, 2008

The creator of the Metasploit framework has helped build exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky.

Convicted spammer escapes from prison

Iain Thomson July 23, 2008

Convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson escaped from a federal prison camp after serving just five weeks of a 21 month sentence.

"Spam King" sentenced to 47 months

Dan Kaplan July 23, 2008

Notorious spammer Robert Soloway has been ordered to spend 47 months behind bars.

Romanian cybercrime ring busted

Sue Marquette Poremba July 18, 2008

Thanks to a joint effort between the FBI and Romanian police, 24 Romanians believed to be part of an organized cybercrime ring were arrested during the past week.

Business booms for organized cybercriminals

Joy Persaud July 16, 2008

The days of the lone hacker are seemingly over, with cybercrime organizations now being run by bosses parading as business entrepreneurs, complete with criminal staff.

Trojan disguised as UPS delivery note

Joy Persaud July 16, 2008

Panda Security is warning email recipients that a series of messages purporting to come from UPS, the world's largest shipping carrier, may in fact harbor the Agent.JEN trojan.

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