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Russian National Pleads Guilty to Hacking in Federal Court
A Russian national out of St. Petersburg, thought to be the ringleader of a global hacking operation, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to operating a vast network of computers to distribute thousands of spam emails, steal login credentials and install malicious software.
Read moreSpain Extradites Suspect Thought to Be Spam Kingpin to US
Spain says it has extradited to the United States a Russian citizen who is suspected of being one the world’s most notorious spammers.
Read moreTwitter Class Dismissed
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice Tuesday a class action that accused Twitter of spamming nonusers.
Read moreSpam-Removal Service Sells Users’ Emails, Class Says
UnrollMe, a supposedly free service that promises to rid users’ email inboxes of junk and unsubscribe them from spam lists, is actually mining user emails for valuable data that it then sells to the highest bidder, according to a federal class action filed Wednesday.
Read moreRussian Accused of Running Spam Ring Is Indicted in US
A federal grand jury in Connecticut indicted Russian national Peter Yuryevich Levashov on eight counts of fraud, conspiracy and identity theft Friday, over his role in the Kelihos botnet that prosecutors say Levashov helped infect with malicious software.
Read moreUS Says Global Spam Scheme Targeted After Mastermind Nabbed
U.S. authorities announced Monday they are working to dismantle a global computer network that sent hundreds of millions of spam emails worldwide each year. The Russian man alleged to be at the head of the scheme was arrested Friday in Spain.
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Video Game Streamer Tries to Root Out Spambot
Taking Shaw Communications and PayPal to court, a video game streaming broadcaster wants them to help identify the culprit behind a “spambot” attacker flooding users with offensive comments.
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