Spam news

The latest version of Nigerian spam purports to be an "official order" from the FBI’s Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division.

Spam businesses are global in nature, and use a complex network of affiliates to handle different tasks.

CAN-SPAM's effects on taming spam have been, at best, marginal, but it may have forced better behavior by mainstream marketers.

Four weeks after the Mccolo shutdown, spam levels are beginning to rise again.

Money transfer scams are on the rise, and the bad economy means that more people are falling for them.

The Mega-D botnet is apparently ramping up again, after being knocked off the Internet when hosting company Mccolo was shut down.

Spam volume is on the rise again, after falling sharply when hosting company Mccolo was disconnected by its peers.

Following the Mccolo shutdown, Estonian ISP Starline Web Services has delivered another blow to the Srizbi botnet by cutting Internet access to the botnet's command-and-control (C&C) servers.

Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning and may be stronger than ever.

A new Israeli spam law makes it illegal to send messages with advertisements via e-mail, fax or SMS without the explicit consent of the recipient.

Why has the shutdown of California ISP McColo led to such a precipitous drop in spam?

People who buy pharmaceuticals over the Internet may be targeted by scammers pretending to be FDA agents.

McColo, home to a number of botnet command-and-control servers, came back online briefly on Saturday, allowing the controllers of the Rustock botnet to shift their operations to a data center in Russia.

An Oregon woman has lost $400,000 to 419 scammers after receiving an email that claimed she was entitled to several million dollars left to her by a dead relative.

Security officials are warning users of a clever new attack arriving in emails purporting to come from the US Federal Reserve. The attack includes a PDF that uses Javascript to attempt to install malware.