Spamming

Guardian Soulmates users spammed with smut following breach

Updated Emails and IDs exposed, trolls have a field day

Security08 May 2017 | 26

BT's spam blocker IDs accident claims as top nuisance call

Some 12 million calls made in the first week of March

Networks12 Apr 2017 | 60

Spanish cops snatch suspected top spammer as US moves against Kelihos botnet

Trump hacking claims look like red herring

Security11 Apr 2017 | 11

FTC accuses man of faking its news to further tech support scam

Alleged spammer targeted victims of previous fraud

On-Prem03 Apr 2017 | 8

World's worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam

IT LIVES!

Security21 Mar 2017 | 13

Manchester's Munee Hut, Eyebrow Cottage and fresh hot spam from Belize

Loans text outfit fined £20K

Security14 Mar 2017 | 9

Road accident nuisance callers fined £270,000 for being absolute sh*tbags

HI! OUR RECORDS INDICATE YOU'VE BEEN IN A RO- *click*

Legal09 Mar 2017 | 78

That big scary 1.4bn leak was 100s of millions of email, postal addresses

Updated Spammers, shockingly, hoard contact details on millions of netizens

Security07 Mar 2017 | 45

UK's Virgin Media subscribers suffer fresh email blocking misery

Update Just when you thought Spamageddon had been fixed

Software06 Mar 2017 | 50

Florida Man jailed for 4 years after raking in a million bucks from spam

Miscreant used stolen email accounts to cram crap into inboxes

Security18 Feb 2017 | 44

Canadian telco bans a little four-letter dirty word from texts: U B E R

Super Canucks go ballistic: Uber filter's bogus (and writing these headlines is a sign of psychosis)

Bootnotes07 Feb 2017 | 12

Virgin Media is so rustic and artisan you get to hand-sort your own spam

Soz about that. Mindfulness, yeah?

Legal30 Nov 2016 | 39

ICO aims at 400 online gambling companies for misuse of personal data

Very British regulator sends a lot of very stern letters

Legal10 Nov 2016 | 1

SpamTorte botnet gets turbo-charged

Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks

Security08 Nov 2016 | 7

Add it to the tab: ICO fines another spammer as unpaid bills mount

Churn and burn marketing firms leave ICO fine factory £2.26 million in the red.

Legal08 Nov 2016 | 63

Boffins predict web scams with domain registration data

Mid-morning bulk buys signal raids on newly expired domains and evil intent

Security31 Oct 2016 | 15

Florida man ran $1.35m hack-and-spam racket with 50m-plus addresses

The wages of sin include a Ferrari F430

Security28 Oct 2016 | 21

VXer turns to ancient freemium model to flog keylogger, malware tools

'Researcher' sells spamming, trojan wares

Security26 Oct 2016 | 1

Brit loan firm gets comeuppance for 7.7 million spam texts

ICO delivers £130k fine to Mancunian credit card broker

Legal28 Sep 2016 | 31

Dev teaches bot to talk spammers' ears off

Crims are so keen to chat they respond to random hipsterisms and send legit discount codes

Security26 Sep 2016 | 29

Pramworld admits mailing list breach

Spamalot Friday

Security16 Sep 2016 | 9

Ofgem sets up database so energy companies can spam Brits

Capitalism, free markets, competition, whoop-de-doo

Legal04 Aug 2016 | 42

Sainsbury’s Bank insurance spam scam causes confusion

Unexpected items in the inbox area

Security17 May 2016 | 17

What a difference a year makes: ICO tele-spam fines break £2m barrier

Law change last year put extra teeth in watchdog's mouth

Legal25 Apr 2016 | 26

Mumblehard spam-spewing botnet floored

Single point of failure key in takedown

Security07 Apr 2016 | 2

Cunning scam: Mobe app stalks victims then emails booby-trapped bogus speeding tickets

Don't trust fines emailed from cops

Security28 Mar 2016 | 60

State should run power firm spam database, says... competition watchdog

Happy with your deal? You won't be after this

Legal10 Mar 2016 | 34

Virgin Media spoof email mystery: Customers take to Facebook

ISP: There has been no breach, no idea what you mean

Security09 Feb 2016 | 62

Video game retailer GAME in email marketing FAIL

Yet another firm fragged by bcc screwup

Security14 Jan 2016 | 22

Hapless Virgin Media customers face ongoing email block woes

All because of that damn Google ditching Gmail support for ISPs

Networks16 Dec 2015 | 50

ICO fines PPI claims firm £80,000 over 1.3m spam SMS deluge

More fines, totalling £250,000, to be doled out this week

Legal23 Nov 2015 | 25

IBM's SoftLayer cloud beats AWS, Azure ... at spreading spam

Mal-mail mavens say Big Blue's got some security scraps to fight in near future

Channel23 Oct 2015 | 2

Virgin Media filters are still eating our email – Ntlworlders

Emails, more like ‘ewails’, amirite?

Networks16 Oct 2015 | 39

Lawyers win big in LinkedIn's $13m email spam lawsuit (you might get $10, maybe more)

Come and get your (probably miniscule) payout

On-Prem05 Oct 2015 | 10

Virgin Media's SPAM-AGEDDON 'fix' silences mailboxes

Ntlworld.com account holders' legit emails deep-sixed by touchy filter

Networks05 Oct 2015 | 34

Web ad tried to make my iPhone spaff a premium-rate text, says snapper

This is why everyone's blocking adverts

Personal Tech29 Sep 2015 | 36

Who the hell is still using Lyft? And why put up with junk texts 'n' calls, huffs FCC

Pink-mustaches left red-faced after commish takes action

On-Prem11 Sep 2015 | 12

Almost all dot-science malicious, dot-cricket rigged, researchers find

Dot-work, dot-party equally hazardous

Security03 Sep 2015 | 28

Spanking Spam King: Sanford Wallace faces jail for Facebook flood

Junk mail tycoon now looking at hard time

Legal25 Aug 2015 | 18

Spamquake subsides: less than half of email is now processed pork

Best results since 2003 as Phisherfolk stop dangling their bait

Security20 Jul 2015 | 22

TalkTalk deactivates hundreds of email accounts after legacy spam scare

Looks like only Tiscali and Lineone have been targeted

Security17 Jul 2015 | 31

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Chopstick-collapsing Spam musubi

Hawaiian-Japanese canned pork fusion cuisine? You must be joking

Science12 Jul 2015 | 39

Google says its AI will jetwash all traces of malodorous spam from your box

Squeaky clean and pine fresh email, thanks to the Machines

SaaS10 Jul 2015 | 47

Link farmers bust Google search algos

And just for a change, PDFs are part of the problem although Adobe's blameless for once

Security09 Jul 2015 | 3

FTC slaps orders on alleged diet pill spamvertising scam scum

'Com Spammers' turned out to be US-based and within reach

Security08 May 2015 | 19

Wordpress munching contagion turns Linux servers into spam bots

Spam spam spam spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Systems01 May 2015 | 17

BLAM! Valve slams brakes on Steam flimflam with $5 spam scram plan

Phishy players face feature restrictions

Networks19 Apr 2015 | 21

Bad news everyone: Cybercrime is getting even easier

And most of it is your fault for not caring enough about what you open

Security09 Apr 2015 | 20

BILLION email address spam scam: Feds collar two blokes, hunt another

Servers hijacked in 'largest ever' US hack, claim prosecutors

Systems06 Mar 2015 | 10

Microsoft: Oh, go on, Xbox Live user. Show us your spammer

'We look at them, we boot them' – gaming platform boss

Personal Tech13 Feb 2015 | 14

2014 in infosec: Spammers sneak small botnets under the wire, Java is dull

Crims also move to Silverlight, according to Cisco

Security20 Jan 2015 | 10

Go Canada: Now ILLEGAL to auto-update software without 'consent'

But, but... permissionless tech, mutters Steve Bong

Security16 Jan 2015 | 94

Spammers set their sights on WhatsApp – that's that ruined then

Bypassing filters and flinging ads through bars of cage

Software15 Jan 2015 | 26

Plusnet could face DATA BREACH probe over SPAM HELL gripes

Exclusive ICO tells El Reg it's gathering evidence

Channel15 Dec 2014 | 41

Plusnet customers SWAMPED by spam but BT-owned ISP dismisses data breach claims

Refuses to notify watchdog despite subscribers' fears

Security07 Dec 2014 | 77

BrowserStack HACK ATTACK: Service still suspended after rogue email

Admits breach, but only within email address list

Software10 Nov 2014 | 12