Comments on: Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military email addresses offered for sale

By: Commercial Steam ‘information harvester/mass group inviter’ could lead to targeted fraudulent campaigns | Webroot Threat Blog - Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:04:06 +0000

[...] wants, and demands of potential customers. Utilizing basic marketing concepts such as localization, market segmentation, as well as personalization, today’s sophisticated cybercriminals would never choose to [...]

By: Segmented Russian “spam leads” offered for sale | Webroot Threat Blog - Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:00:33 +0000

[...] on how the spam ecosystem really works - Millions of harvested emails offered for sale; Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military email addresses offered for sale; New DIY email harvester released in the wild; A peek inside a managed spam service; Mobile [...]

By: Webroot’s Threat Blog Most Popular Posts for 2012 « Webroot Threat Blog – Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:02:08 +0000

[...] Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military email addresses offered for sale – 2012 marked the peak of cyber espionage campaigns launched by multiple characters across the Web. Meanwhile, on a periodic basis, US government released reports blamed China as being the single most persistent cyber espionage player in the world. In fact, a huge percentage of APT campaigns started using spear phishing emails. So it’s not a suprprise that during 2012 we stumbled upon a service offering access to millions of harvested US government and US military emails, which is just the tip of the iceberg. [...]

By: A peek inside a boutique cybercrime-friendly E-shop – part five « Webroot Threat Blog – Internet Security Threat Updates from Around the World

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:01:14 +0000

[...] and SSH accounting data, as well as DIY Spam Mailers and “marketing leads”, namely, harvested databases of email addresses, with the prices varying between $8-$15. Thanks to the overall availability of DIY crimeware and [...]

By: Military emails for sale – Hack Read

Military emails for sale – Hack Read — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:58:22 +0000

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By: A peek inside a boutique cybercrime-friendly E-shop – part three « Webroot Threat Blog

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:48:35 +0000

[...] to collect valid accounting data from legitimate customers. Thanks to the overall availability of harvested email databases, managed spam services, and phishing site templates for the most popular brands in the financial [...]

By: Cybercriminals infiltrate the music industry by offering full newly released albums for just $1 « Webroot Threat Blog

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:05:40 +0000

[...] to commodity underground goods and services such as managed spam, harvested email databases, boutique cybercrime-friendly services, services offering access to hacked PCs, managed malware [...]

By: A peek inside a managed spam service « Webroot Threat Blog

A peek inside a managed spam service « Webroot Threat Blog — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:19:55 +0000

[...] a spammer, starting for a managed spam appliance, DIY email harvesters, and millions of harvested emails, are available for sale within the cybercrime ecosystem. Despite the numerous botnet take downs [...]

By: New DIY email harvester released in the wild « Webroot Threat Blog

New DIY email harvester released in the wild « Webroot Threat Blog — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:08:23 +0000

[...] that continue selling millions of already harvested email addresses, next to another service, selling exclusive access to U.S Government and U.S Military email addresses, for potential use in targeted, segmented attacks, also known as advanced persistent [...]

By: Philippines news: Up for sale: US military email addresses with geolocation | Pinas.Net

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:52:49 +0000

[...] An entry on the Webroot blog site said this may be the latest innovation to allow cybercriminals better targeting in their upcoming spam campaigns. “What’s particularly interesting about this service … is that it offers segmented databases of harvested emails based on a particular country, or multiple gTLDs for better campaign targeting in upcoming spam campaigns, and targeted attacks,” it said. [...]