Tag archive: Trojans

Scam, cons, rip-offs, stings, and outright theft, not to mention the fiendish swine that perpetrate them, have been with us since man first learned to speak – and likely before that. But in the veil of anonymity that is the Internet, conmen and swindlers have a powerful new ally that shields them like never before and lends a certain air of authority and credibility to their nasty plans. If you can honestly say you've never been duped,… Read More

The company found that Trojans, typically installed surreptitiously by worms or spyware, exploit vulnerabilities to bypass normal email routing and drop spam messages directly into end user machines. Many of the most well-publicised worm attacks in recent months were launched expressly to install spam Trojans on unsuspecting end users' machines, waiting to be used at a later date as a spam delivery relay, Sandvine warned. Read the… Read More