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 May 9, 2008Sometimes the old tricks work the best.
 
Beware of the scammer warning you of an impostor registering variants of your domain name in China, Hong Kong and the like. 
 May 7, 2008New data highlights major spam botnets
 
New data from TRACE clearly shows the rise of Szribi as king of the spam botnets.
 May 6, 2008Product Spam is the New King
 
Enlargement Spam not so large any more
 May 5, 2008Spambot hides behind picture
 
A spamming run over the weekend offers pictures, and installs a hidden spambot.
 May 1, 2008Challenges in Web Security
 
Recent high-profile and large-scale website attacks illustrate the challenges we face in web security.
 May 1, 2008Srizbi personalizes spam
 
Lately Srizbi has been using more personal subject lines in spam to get users to open them.
 April 22, 2008Srizbi has latest news on Osama Bin Laden
 
The latest spam from the Srizbi botnet claims to have the latest news about Osama Bin Laden.
 April 18, 2008Srizbi maintains large spam botnet
 
Srizbi maintains a large spam botnet using simple techniques to recruit new bot members.
 April 8, 2008Storm Codec
 
Storm's latest website asks users to install the 'Storm Codec' in order to view a phony video clip.
 April 7, 2008Storm uses Blogspot to spread
 
Storm is using Blogspot to host it's latest campaign to infect more victims.
 April 3, 2008Spam Message Size Lowest on Record
 
Small message size provide little comfort sys admins and end users inundated with spam
 March 31, 2008April Fool's spam
 
The Storm Botnet has begun a spamming campaign with an April Fool's Day theme.
 March 28, 2008PayPal now the top Phishing target
 
Typically attracting far fewer attacks than the banks, PayPal now the primary target.
 March 27, 2008Google AdWords Phishing
 
Google AdWords customers have been the target of a phishing scam.
 March 26, 2008New spam over Easter
 
The Rustock Botnet changed the structure of its spam emails over the Easter weekend.
 March 17, 2008Spambot data updated
 
Updated spambot statistics now have a permanent place on the TRACE homepage.
 March 12, 2008Spam gets Zipped
 
Spammers resort to Zip attachments in their efforts to defeat spam filters
 March 7, 2008Srizbi uses multi-pronged attack to spread malware
 
Srizbi is using a multi-pronged spam attack, using simple social engineering, to spread its malware.
 March 4, 2008More postcards from Storm
 
The Storm botnet is again spamming out links to a 'funny postcard' website to recruit new bots.
 February 29, 2008Srizbi now leads the spam pack
 
As Mega-D faltered, Srizbi took over as the leading spam botnet in February.

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