Tag archive: Bradley Anstis

With e-mail spam filters becoming more and more refined by the day, spammers have had to find new and innovative ways to keep their addresses off of blacklists. Their newest way to worm through: using YouTube. By exploiting the YouTube feature that allows users to send links to their friends, spammers have found a way to send their own malicious messages from a trusted and unblocked address, service@youtube.com. “Spammers are… Read More

If you use Google’s Blogger site, you’d better be careful, because it’s becoming a very dangerous place. Hackers are posting fake entries to a number of blogs there.   That might not seem too threatening, but the entries contain links that lead to downloads that are booby-trapped to infect a Windows PC.   The malicious links were noticed by security researcher Alex Eckelberry from Sunbelt Software on August 27.… Read More