Fourth of July spam

Malware writers behind the Waledac botnet have set preparations in motion for a spam campaign with an Independence Day theme, security vendor ESET warned Thursday in a blog post. At least 18 domain names, expected to be used in the attacks, have been registered. They relate to fireworks or Independence Day. The spam is expected to include links to supposed videos of Fourth of July fireworks shows. — AM

Sign up to our newsletters

More in News

Bitcoin mining botnet has become one of the most prevalent cyber threats

Fortinet researchers have tracked 100,000 new ZeroAccess trojan infections per week, making the botnet very lucrative to its owners.

House Intelligence Committee OKs amended version of controversial CISPA

House Intelligence Committee OKs amended version of controversial ...

Despite the 18-to-2 vote in favor of the bill proposal, privacy advocates likely will not be satisfied, considering two key amendments reportedly were shot down.

Judge rules hospital can ask ISP for help in ID'ing alleged hackers

Judge rules hospital can ask ISP for help ...

The case stems from two incidents where at least one individual is accused of accessing the hospital's network to spread "defamatory" messages to employees.