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 August 20, 2008Malicious spam up again
 
The amount of malicious spam remains extremely high with all the major spamming botnets in on the act.
 August 18, 2008Rogue Anti-virus Using SEO
 
A large operation that uses search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to promote malicious websites is being used to spread rogue anti-virus software.
 August 18, 2008MSNBC Spam is now 'Weekly top news' Spam
 
The Rustock botnet has changed it's 'News' spam once again to 'Weekly top news'.
 August 13, 2008CNN spam changes to 'MSN Breaking News'
 
The malicious CNN campaign by Rustock has morphed to 'MSN Breaking News'.
 August 11, 2008More Malicious CNN News Spam
 
Rustock's CNN News spam has changed slightly over the weekend but is still part of the same malicious campaign that began over a week ago.
 August 7, 2008Malicious spam skyrockets
 
The amount of malicious spam being sent has grown massively in the last six weeks to become the number one spam category.
 August 7, 2008Malware Spread Through Social Networking Sites
 
A new worm is using the social networking sites MySpace and Facebook to spread and install rogue anti-virus programs.
 August 5, 2008'CNN News' spam is malicious
 
Rustock promotes fake CNN Daily news in a new twist in its malicious spam campaign.
 July 30, 2008Top Botnets Pushing Rogue 'Antivirus' Program
 
Four of the top spamming botnets are sending malicious spam in order to install a rogue anti-virus program on victims' machines.
 July 28, 2008UPS, E-Tickets and More
 
The Pushdo botnet has added three more spam themes to distribute malware along with its UPS theme.
 July 24, 2008Rustock malicious spam update
 
Malicious spam from the Rustock botnet continues in large numbers.
 July 23, 2008Malicious spam campaign continues
 
The malicious spam campaign from the Rustock botnet is gaining in volume and intensity.
 July 17, 2008The Irresistible Angelina Jolie
 
Numerous different Angelina Jolie malicious spam campaigns are a  'feature' of this week's spam.
 July 14, 2008Pushdo Sends Fake UPS Invoices
 
The Pushdo botnet has been sending emails asking recipients to print an attached UPS receipt which is in fact an executable file.
 July 4, 2008Storm Celebrates American Independance Day
 
The Storm botnet has begun sending spam with an Independence Day theme.
 July 3, 2008The Great Web Browser Threat
 
Over 45% of Internet users are at risk when browsing the web, according to new research.
 June 25, 2008Srizbi and Rustock
 
Srizbi and Rustock are both sending links to 'PornTube' websites that install Rustock spam bots.
 June 20, 2008Srizbi Classmates.com Spam
 
Srizbi is using fake Classmates.com invites to lure users to a website hosting malware.
 June 20, 2008Storm uses earthquake hook
 
The latest Storm spam campaign uses an earthquake in China theme to entice users to download its Trojan.
 June 12, 2008Sudden and large increase in malicious email
 
Major email campaign underway to increase the size of botnets

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