The cybercriminals seem to have completed their Black Friday shopping and returned to work this morning with a new Facebook scam. Its probably wrong to call it "new", since its a re-tread of the Facebook scam we warned about October 28th. The UAB...

Dear Cyber Criminals, Isn't there someone out there doing someone interesting besides the Zeus criminals? Today we have yet another major spam campaign spreading malware, and yet again, its the same criminals trying to use social engineering to...

I'm frequently asked how it is that the UAB Spam Data Mine is consistently among the first in reporting new spam campaigns that contain harmful malware. I thought I would show you the manual version of the process this morning. We start by finding...

The malware just keeps flowing! Today the top email-based threats continue to be related to the Zeus botnet or Zbot. The first we've written about previously in our article on November 18th, Zeus: Same Criminal, New Spam which discussed the malware...

Cyber criminals have launched a new spam campaign this morning trying to recruit more Money Mules. What is a Money Mule? A Money Mule is a person who is participating in a money laundering scheme to help cyber criminals move stolen funds out of the...