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Visa threatens banks over spammer accounts
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-03-05 09:39
Visa has begun threatening banks that harbour spammer accounts in a move designed to crush the spam revenue model.
The initiative, described as a “major effort”, had been quietly underway since the start of the year and has already forced the closure of accounts held by major spam players.
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ZeuS Trojan author in with spam kingpins
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-02-22 00:24
The cybercrime underground is expanding each day, yet the longer I study it the more convinced I am that much of it is run by a fairly small and loose-knit group of hackers. That suspicion was reinforced this week when I discovered that the author of the infamous ZeuS Trojan was a core member of Spamdot, until recently the most exclusive online forum for spammers and the shady businessmen who support the big spam botnets.
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Facebook sues Adscend Media for malware and spam
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-01-31 07:46
Facebook and the state of Washington have filed separate lawsuits against West Virginia-based Adscend Media LLC, alleging the company was responsible for spreading malware through Facebook and for stealing personal information from users of the social networking site.
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Accused Kelihos spam botmaster: It wasn't me, Microsoft
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-01-31 07:44
The Russian man who Microsoft has accused of being the mastermind behind the Kelihos botnet has taken to his blog to deny the allegations.
"I did not commit this crime, [have] never participated in the management of botnets and any other similar programs and especially not extracted from it any benefit," Andrey Sabelnikov wrote Friday in a translated post on LiveJournal. The entry was directed to Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs, which also reportedly was involved in the takedown of Kelihos.
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Nokia fined in Australia for spam-texting its own customers
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-01-24 19:11
Nokia has been fined by Australian regulators for spamming its customers with text messages, Reuters reports. The company will have to pay AUS$55,000 for sending SMS marketing messages for its products and services alongside "tips" on how customers can best use their phones, but without offering a way to unsubscribe to the messages.
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