But McNally points out that because the spammers now have to send an image file, they use more bandwidth and so the same volume of spam costs more and takes longer. However, John Cheney, chief executive of email security firm BlackSpider...
This is the kind of social engineering tactic employed for some time by spammers, who have taken the lead from virus writers. Natasha Staley, information security analyst at MessageLabs, said: "Spammers tend to tap into the things they think people...
But "the worry now is that devious spammers will turn to other net-based money-making schemes, such as spyware and identity theft malware to make their dirty money", Cluley said. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, said in a...
The company attributed the spam rise to two factors: the demise of anti-spam efforts by Blue Security, and growing use by spammers of image-only emails to defeat filters. Spammers typically use networks of zombies, or compromised PCs used without...
There is the potential for massive fraud in the early days of voice phishing simply because users still trust telephone messages more than emails. Certainly spammers wield enough power and would be enthusiastic adopters of a new voice channel to...
According to MessageLabs, spammers have recently been experimenting with different types of file attachments, including text, image, HTML, ZIP, RAR, RTF and PDF file formats. Mark Sunner, chief security analyst for MessageLabs, said: "The MP3 spam...
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