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Asprox botnet malware morphs

Sue Marquette Poremba May 15, 2008

The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks.

MySpace wins major spam judgment

Greg Masters May 14, 2008

If the law can ever find him, the spam king owes $223 million to the popular social networking site MySpace.

Gasoline spam hits inboxes

Sue Marquette Poremba May 12, 2008

A new type of spam focuses on consumers' frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs.

FTC halts spammer hawking adult sites

Chuck Miller May 07, 2008

In a civil action, the Federal Trade Commission slammed the door shut on spammers that spewed unsolicited emails numbering in the millions.

Yahoo and McAfee team to secure search results

Dan Kaplan May 06, 2008

Users of Yahoo's search engine can now traverse the internet with some body armor thanks to a partnership with McAfee that was announced Tuesday.

Storm bot's stranglehold slipping: report

Sue Marquette Poremba May 05, 2008

The Storm Worm botnet is just a fraction of its original size, but malware remains on the rise, according to one email security firm.

Major botnet infiltrated

Chuck Miller April 30, 2008

The insidious Kraken botnet has been infiltrated and a way found to shut it down remotely.

Spammers use bots to create fake Google Blogger sites

Jim Carr April 25, 2008

Spammers have developed automated techniques to create fake pages on Google's Blogger service that are used to hawk typical junk mail merchandise.

New spam wave uses naked video claim

Sue Marquette Poremba April 21, 2008

The Srizbi botnet is using a new spam tactic to trick users into clicking a link to malicious software, according to Marshal's TRACE Team.

Pirates of the web

Rajesh Venkat, segment marketing director, McAfee April 18, 2008

Employers must face the fact that a lot of online shopping takes place at the office, and it can put an entire business network at risk.

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