Articles about spam

Seattle’s Hiya acquires deepfake startup Loccus and releases voice-cloning detection tool

Hiya, a Seattle startup battling fraudulent calls and providing technology to protect voice identity, is acquiring deepfake detection company Loccus.ai… Read More

New report highlights ‘rampant’ phone spam problem; 73.6M unwanted calls per day in Q1

A new report from Seattle startup Hiya highlights the ongoing problem of phone fraud and spam calls. The report found… Read More

T-Mobile rolls out ‘Scam Shield,’ offering proxy line and other tools to fight scammers and robocalls

T-Mobile on Thursday unveiled a new suite of tools designed to protect customers from scammers and robocalls. Dubbed “Scam Shield,”… Read More

Scammers impersonate Amazon customer support in new scheme as robocalls surge

Americans received 26.3 billion spam calls in 2018, roughly 80 times the entire population of the United States. Robocalls and… Read More

US DOJ accuses three men in largest email breach ‘in the history of the Internet’

The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing three men of being responsible for, or profiting from, what it calls “the largest data… Read More

Canadian government fines company $1.1M for violating anti-spam law

Canada’s new anti-spam law apparently has teeth: $1.1 million worth, Canadian. Today the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), Canada’s… Read More

Spam blocker: WhitePages caller ID app now alerts users to costly scams

Random calls from telemarketers and automated machines are already annoying enough. But when those phony calls end up costing you… Read More

Meet the first crowdsourced spam blocker for your phone

It’s the end of a long day at work and you’re relaxing at home watching some TV or eating a… Read More

Microsoft dismantles Kelihos botnet

Microsoft’s ongoing battle against nasty botnets has continued, with the company announcing today that it has dismantled the Kelihos botnet… Read More

Microsoft offers $250,000 bounty for information on Rustock ‘botnet’

Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit helped knock out one of the world’s most notorious spam purveyors back in March, but the company… Read More

Microsoft security report shows abrupt decline in spam

Microsoft this morning released its latest Security Intelligence Report, summarizing the data gleaned by the company about online attacks, viruses… Read More