Email hacking for hire going mainstream

January 5, 2012 – 11:25 am

by Dancho Danchev Just how easy is it to hack someone’s email nowadays? Very easy as the process is offered as a managed service within the cybercrime ecosystem. Over the past couple of months, I have been monitoring an increase in managed email hacking services. These services basically offered everyone the ability to claim someone [...]

By ddanchev | Posted in Passwords, phishing, social engineering | Tags: , , , | Comments (7)

Millions of harvested emails offered for sale

January 3, 2012 – 6:44 pm

By Dancho Danchev What does it take to be a successful spammer in 2012? Access to a botnet, managed spamming appliance, spam templates that are capable of bypassing spam filters, and most importantly freshly harvested databases of valid emails from multiple email providers. Let’s profile a web-based service currently selling millions of harvested emails to [...]

By ddanchev | Posted in social networks, spam | Tags: , , | Comments (3)

For your eyes only (please)

December 1, 2011 – 10:15 am

By the Webroot Threat Team Have you ever had the queasy experience of sending a message to someone that you’d rather not have anyone else see, and then hoping that it won’t get passed along? A new system developed by Internet law and security researchers aims to solve the problem, with a light-handed touch. The [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in spam, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Webroot Answers Your Security Questions

April 5, 2011 – 9:05 am

By Andrew Brandt I’m very pleased to present today the first in a series of videos we’ve produced. The videos have the lofty goal of addressing the most pressing questions relating to malware, cybercrime, and online fraud. We’ll take you behind the scenes at Webroot and introduce you to some of our Threat Research team [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Passwords, phishing, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)
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