China is investigating a spam attack after almost half of China’s mobile phone users received unwanted text messages from advertisers. The State Council, China’s cabinet, affirmed Sunday it is making a thorough investigation into the spammers, who were exposed by an investigative program on China Central Television earlier this month on the World Consumer Rights [...]

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Japanese police have arrested a “prolific spammer” who has allegedly bombarded inboxes all over the world with hundreds of millions of email messages punting internet gambling and dating sites. Investigators believe Yuki Shiina, 25, sent as many as 2.2 billion spam messages using what appears to be fundamental spamming techniques. He allegedly purchased a list [...]

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Anyone who has ever opened an email account will have been subjected to spam. Probably almost as soon as the account has been opened. So how do you get rid of spam from your inbox without going crazy in the process? The lowest tech solution is to use your delete key. If you’re lucky enough [...]

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Experts are warning of a new worm spreading across mobile networks via Symbian phones. Fortinet’s threat response team warned on Monday that the worm, identified as SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm, is able to run on several Symbian S60 enabled devices. These include handsets such as Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, N70 and N72 handsets. After infection, the worm [...]

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Some spam e-mails that claim to spread love are instead attempts to lure unsuspecting recipients into spreading malicious software, according to a recent warning by antivirus firm Sophos. The so-called “romantic” email provides users with the warmth of a relationship with the Dorf Trojan (also known as Storm) and leads the victims to dangerous websites. [...]

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The UK now receives 20 billion spam emails a day, roughly one sixth of the daily global total, filtering company IronPort has said. Latest spam and virus end-of-year trends and prediction report has found 2007 spam levels have increased 100 per cent on last year’s volumes and now makes up a $200-billion business. “Just when [...]

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