Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers. New analysis from Symantec’s ...

Symantec’s October Intelligence Report, released Tuesday, shows spammers increasingly embedding shortened URLs in e-mails in an attempt to lure people to malicious Web sites. “It’s ...

Symantec has released the July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report which contains the usual interesting and relevant facts regarding trends in spam and malware. Of particular interest in this report, ...

One of the more popular online services is the URL shortener, such as TinyURL. But what’s behind that shortened link? For spammers, these services act as a new tool to bait unsuspecting visitors, and ...

Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from ...

Google’s annual Webspam Report covering 2022 highlighted all the ways their SpamBrain anti-spam system became more adept at catching multiple forms of spam. While the report is mainly about reporting ...