The Register - Security: Spam
Biting the hand that feeds IT
• Scumbags punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure
A new low
With a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.…
• Alleged Brazilian botnet herder faces US extradition
Zombie farmer suspects sent to the pen
A Brazilian man who allegedly sold access to a huge network of compromised PCs has been charged with computer hacking offences in the US.…
• Apple's MobileMe plays into hands of spammers
Address harvesting all too easy
Apple has inadvertently made it easy for spammers to create a database of MobileMe email addresses.…
• Seattle Spam King Dark Mailer faces 47-month sentence
From the penthouse to the Big House
One of the world's most prolific spammers has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $708,000 in income for blasting out tens of millions of unwanted emails.…
• 419ers crank up the menaces
'Your friend has paid us to kill you...'
You know how it is - things are a bit quiet in the internet cafes of Lagos, people have sussed MARIAM ABACHA doesn't really have $30,000,000 (THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS) in gold bullion looted from Saddam Hussein's personal vault, and so it looks like it's time to up the email scam ante.…
• AOL spammer jailed for 30 months
One minute behind bars for every junk mail
A New Yorker was jailed for 30 months on Tuesday after being convicted for spamming 1.2 million AOL members with junk mail.…
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