Brian Krebs on the Ralsky guilty verdict : good quote from Richard Cox of Spamhaus: “This has been a long time coming. Ralsky has been identified as one of the key drivers of [..] development in the spam world […] among the first to commission mass-mailing Trojans to help develop spam botnets.”‘
(tags: alan-ralsky stock-spam busts prosecutions guilty spam law spamhaus botnets)Facebook stolen-account scam : a mate had his FB credentials stolen and the account used to attempt to scam his social group. Sample chat: ‘so where should I send the money?’ ‘you can have it sent to my name and my present location […] Do you know any western union outlet nearest to you?’
(tags: western-union scams facebook security phishing 419 social-networking)