Spamming

Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you're mostly grown up – now fix the spam

Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs

Personal Tech02 Apr 2024 | 52

Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests

Beware support calls offering a fix

Security27 Mar 2024 | 18

Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage

Be careful where you click

Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 35

Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime

Operators pack twenty phones into a chassis – then rack 'em and stack 'em ready to do evil

Cyber-crime21 Mar 2024 | 34

Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

Penny Appeal sent more than 460,000 texts asking for money to help war-torn countries, no opt out

Security05 Mar 2024 | 72

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

Updated 'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study

Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 112

Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140K for sending 80M+ spams

Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people

Security12 Jan 2024 | 29

UK data watchdog fines three text spammers for flouting electronic marketing rules

'High-pressure' sales tactics targeted people registered with Telephone Preference Service

Security03 Nov 2023 | 13

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

Annual fee won't be profitable, will require registration of phone number

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 69

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58

Marketing biz sent 107 million spam emails... to just 437k people

Recruitment company fined £130,000 by data regulator for breaking PECR

Security17 Apr 2023 | 16

Refreshed from its holiday, Emotet has gone phishing

Notorious botnet starts spamming again after a three-month pause

Research09 Mar 2023 | 2

Microsoft's Outlook: Cloudy with a chance of junk-mail-stuffed inboxes

Redmond fixed the spam filtering problem, but it was a wild day-long ride for some

Off-Prem21 Feb 2023 | 9

FCC calls for mega $300 million fine for massive US robocall campaign

5 billion calls over three months. Was your phone spammed?

Security22 Dec 2022 | 82

Blockchain couldn't stop TXT spam in India, regulator now trying AI

Maybe – just maybe – messages and calls from +91 might become more trustworthy

Security29 Nov 2022 | 11

FCC takes on robotexts. Good news if your dad thinks IRS gives SMS rebates

But how will you know when your vehicle's extended warranty has expired?

Networks03 Oct 2022 | 16

Google promises to adjust search algorithm to favor 'people-first content'

Well now there's an idea

Personal Tech19 Aug 2022 | 54

Deluge of of entries to Spamhaus blocklists includes 'various household names'

Nastymail tracking service blames sloppy sending practices for swelling lists of dangerous mailers

Security18 Aug 2022 | 115

Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters

Personal Tech11 Aug 2022 | 58

Google said to be taking steps to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam bin

Just after Big Tech comes under fire for left and right-leaning message filters

Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 34

Spam is back with a vengeance. Luckily we can't read any of it

Something for the Weekend It's a shame still nothing can be done about all the false positives, though

Bootnotes27 May 2022 | 102

Meet Wizard Spider, the multimillion-dollar gang behind Conti, Ryuk malware

Analysis Russia-linked crime-as-a-service crew is rich, professional – and investing in R&D

Research18 May 2022 | 3

Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled

A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System

Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 44

Brit watchdog fines financial services biz £80k for text spam

Company changed address to avoid probe after sending 378,553 messages

Personal Tech01 Apr 2022 | 10

Open redirect on UK council website was being used for Royal Mail-themed parcel payments scam

Updated Homes4Wiltshire, aka Homes4Spammers

Security13 Sep 2021 | 2

UK data regulator fines American Express up to 0.021p per email after opted-out folk spammed 4.1 million times

Bank made $1.4bn in profits alone last quarter

Security20 May 2021 | 36

Samsung to introduce automatic call blocking on Android 11-capable flagships

Yeah I've heard you were in a car accident that wasn't your fault. Is that right? *Click*

Security22 Oct 2020 | 67

How to make a stranger's insecure 3D printer halt-and-catch-fire – plus more alerts from infosec world

Roundup San Francisco Airport websites hacked, VMware patches emitted, etc

Security13 Apr 2020 | 24

Microsoft nukes 9 million-strong Necurs botnet after unpicking domain name-generating algorithm

Takedown should (in theory) see spam volumes shrink rapidly

Security11 Mar 2020 | 49

EE-k, a hundred grand! BT's mobile arm slapped for sending 2.5m+ unwanted texts

Pestered folk to 'download my EE app' and 'upgrade your phone'

Legal24 Jun 2019 | 16

Wondering where that upcoming meeting with 'Cheap Viagra' came from? Spammers beat Gmail filters by abusing Google Calendar, Forms, Photos, Analytics...

Kaspersky fingers pro-G filters for letting cyber-muck through

Security11 Jun 2019 | 29

Protip: No, the CIA will not call off a pedophilia probe into your life in exchange for Bitcoin

Kaspersky warns of fake 'dirty agent' scam circulating

Security10 Jun 2019 | 36

But we hired a consultant, cries UK pensions biz as it swallows £40k fine for 2 million spam emails

A legal boffin also gave us some useless advice, moans Grove Pensions

Legal26 Mar 2019 | 39

TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it's spamming my mates

Updated But ISP won't nuke nuisance without proof of ID

Security07 Mar 2019 | 152

'Bomb threat' scammers linked to earlier sextortion campaign

Scare tactic efforts may be the work of a single group

Security15 Dec 2018 | 29

UK spam-texting tax consultancy slapped with £200k fine

Generic privacy policies won't get you valid consent, says ICO

Legal13 Dec 2018 | 22

Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports

Security08 Nov 2018 | 22

Cybercrooks home in on infosec's weakest link – you poor gullible people

Email fraud skyrockets and ransomware is back, baby!

Security05 Sep 2018 | 12

Welsh firm fined £60k for pummelling phones with 270k pay-day loan texts

STS Commercial you're fined: Pay b4 August GET 20% off

Security06 Jul 2018 | 26

They grow up so fast: Spam magnet Hotmail turned 22 today

Go on. Log in one more time. Just for posterity

Software04 Jul 2018 | 78

Men are officially the worst… top-level domain

It's paining men as Spamhaus lists the top abused registries

Networks12 Jun 2018 | 40

SpamCannibal blacklist service reanimated by squatters, claims every IP address is spammy

Updated Yes, even yours

Security30 May 2018 | 10

In a touching Monty Python tribute today, Microsoft's Office 365 makes everything spam

Punters less amused by inbox-clearing glitch

SaaS26 Apr 2018 | 26

It's not you, it's Big G: Sneaky spammers slip strangers spoofed spam, swamp Gmail sent files

Updated Not a bug, we're told: It's a feature. Really

Software23 Apr 2018 | 38

MailChimp 'working' to stop hackers flinging malware-laced spam from accounts

What can you do about it for now? Sweet 2FA

Security15 Mar 2018 | 28

Registrar Namecheap let miscreants slap spam, malware on unlucky customers' web domains

Updated Crooks create subdomains on a dozen sites

Security07 Feb 2018 | 24

UK watchdog dishes out fines totaling £600k to four spam-spewers

ICO fought dodgy contracts, buck-passing, and less than concrete proof

Legal11 Jan 2018 | 21

Tenable's response to folks upset at AWOL features: A 150-emails-a-minute spam storm

Nessus Pro V7 launch fiasco

Security12 Dec 2017 | 30

156K spam text-sending firm to ICO: It wasn't us, Commissioner

Get fined £45,000 by Brit regulator anyway

Legal24 Nov 2017 | 47

Loake Shoes admits: We've fallen victim to cybercrims

Hold on to your laces, email server was compromised

Security22 Nov 2017 | 17

Brit bank fined £75k over 1.5 million text and email spamhammer

And London advertising firm spanked for similar campaign

Legal10 Oct 2017 | 20

Russian bot-herder and election-fiddling suspect closer to US trial

It's an international tug-of-war: Russia also wants to extradite Peter Levashov

Security04 Oct 2017 | 9

IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS

I don't know which is worse

Security22 Sep 2017 | 14

ICO slaps cab app chaps for 10-day spam crap

Cambridge-based biz facing £45k fine for 700,000 marketing mailers

Legal12 Sep 2017 | 28

'Open and accessible' spambot server leaks 711 million records

Many duplicates in River City-rivalling data spill

Security30 Aug 2017 | 23

Moneysupermarket fined £80,000 for spamming seven million customers

Go compare the original opt-out request, firm told

Security21 Jul 2017 | 40