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Crooks steal past multi-factor authentication

Crooks steal past multi-factor authentication

...and selling their own shares at exactly the right moments in classic pump-and-dump tactics. Hein Lannoy from the Belgian Banking, Finance and Insurance... Read more

16 July, 2010 by Rik Ferguson

MessageLabs: Watch out for audio and video spam

Spammers are experimenting with different media formats and even hosting content online, the security company has warned Read more

30 October, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Spammers launch MP3 pump-and-dump campaign

Spammers have launched the first mass MP3-attached pump-and-dump spam campaign, which security experts say could be used to... Read more

22 October, 2007 by Liam Tung

Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning

Corporate networks at risk from mass outbreak... An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3 voice... Read more

19 October, 2007 by Andy McCue
Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for <endeca_term>Pump and-Dump</endeca_term> Scams

Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for Pump and-Dump Scams

This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat... Read more

5 June, 2009

'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to four years

...Spam', has been given over four years' jail-time for running a 'pump-and-dump' spam operation. On Monday, Michigan resident Ralsky was sentenced to... Read more

25 November, 2009 by Tom Espiner

FBI warns of rising cybercrime threat

...he said, while companies have lost tens of millions of dollars from 'pump and dump' schemes in which criminals buy and sell stocks with other... Read more

16 October, 2008 by Stephanie Condon

Phishers harness Storm worm botnet

...Last Autumn, the Storm botnet was used to send a series of pump-and-dump stock spam waves, and an MP3-based spam run. The... Read more

10 January, 2008 by Robert Vamosi and Tom Espiner

Storm botnet 'services' could be sold

...sites that are attacking it Storm has only been implicated in some pump-and-dump stock scams. There are rumours that Storm is leased out... Read more

16 October, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Adobe: No threat from PDF spam

...within PDF documents. Last week, it was used in a large-scale "pump-and-dump" scam which reportedly caused a huge spike in spam levels... Read more

16 August, 2007 by Lynn Tan

Storm worm stirs up email virus chaos

...highly likely that this latest attack will result in many more downloads, pump-and-dump attacks and more, as seen with former Storm worm attacks... Read more

16 April, 2007 by Caroline McCarthy

SEC clamps down on spammers and hackers

...a Latvian-based bank's trading account that allegedly was used in "pump-and-dump" manipulation of shares in 15 different companies, the SEC said... Read more

9 March, 2007 by Joris Evers

Secrets of stock spam scams revealed

...proven to influence the financial markets, German researchers have found. So-called "pump-and-dump" scams, where spammers send out false stock information to encourage... Read more

30 June, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Sophos: Gates will be proved wrong about spam

...spam," Sophos said. Spam emails were a serious problem in 2005, with 'pump-and-dump' stock spam increasing the most. "Pump-and-dump stock scams... Read more

6 December, 2005 by Tom Espiner
NEW ! Wall Street Words-Financial Management made easy! ( A Dictionary)

NEW ! Wall Street Words-Financial Management made easy! ( A Dictionary)

...to-the-minute terms as double-dip recession, e-trade lockdown, and pump and dump More than 50 new and updated investment tips from street... Read more

29 August, 2007

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