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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Stolen in Pandemic Scams. Microsoft Antivirus Now Automatically Mitigates Exchange Server Vulnerability. Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day, Exploitations Led by Hafnium. Covid Fraud: £34.5m

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

The massive shift to work from home in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a rush to secure a wider range of home devices and networks, and an instant spike in demand for training and services that protect employees in identifying attempted cyberattacks and scams. Economic stimulus checks were targeted.

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