Phisher Goodin sentenced to the prison for nearly six years

June 16, 2007 1 Comment


Jeffrey Brett Goodin is sentenced to the prison for nearly six years and has to pay $1,002,885.58 to the victims of his phishing scheme, including nearly $1 million to Earthlink.

Goodin was found guilty after a week-long jury trial for sending thousands of e-mails through an Earthlink Internet connection to America Online users. The email was spoofed so that it appeared to be from AOL’s billing department. AOL customers where asked to update their personal and credit card information on AOL webpages that Goodin controlled. With the information, Gooding made unauthorized credit card purchases.

Filed under Email security, Phishing

.hk domain popular for hosting sites from spammers

June 16, 2007


MX Lab noticed an increase of the usage of .hk domain in spams for software, online drug stores, replica watches,… during the last few weeks. Our intent analysis technology is intercepting a vast amount of .hk domains, about a 60% of all URLs.

One other thing that MX Lab could detect was the usage of images in the background of the image based spam. Normally, image based spam contains an integrated image in the body of the HTML part of the email. The image itself now is integrated in the HTML body tag as a background. So far, this seemed to be a one time action but it is obvious that spammers are trying to avoid detection of their images in the spam emails.

Filed under Spam

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