FTC says CAN-SPAM can

2006-01-01

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

FTC reports on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reported to Congress that the two-year-old CAN-SPAM Act is effective in providing protection for consumers, and that it is being enforced aggressively by state and federal law enforcers as well as the private sector.

Despite concluding that the Act is effective, the FTC suggests three steps that would improve its efficacy still further. First, the report recommends that Congress should enact the 'US SAFE WEB Act', to improve the FTC's ability to trace spammers who operate outside of the US. Second, it recommends the continuation of efforts to educate consumers about spam. Finally, the report calls for continued work in the development and advancement of anti-spam technology, and in particular, tools that prevent spammers from operating anonymously.

Latest articles:

Nexus Android banking botnet – compromising C&C panels and dissecting mobile AppInjects

Aditya Sood & Rohit Bansal provide details of a security vulnerability in the Nexus Android botnet C&C panel that was exploited to compromise the C&C panel in order to gather threat intelligence, and present a model of mobile AppInjects.

Cryptojacking on the fly: TeamTNT using NVIDIA drivers to mine cryptocurrency

TeamTNT is known for attacking insecure and vulnerable Kubernetes deployments in order to infiltrate organizations’ dedicated environments and transform them into attack launchpads. In this article Aditya Sood presents a new module introduced by…

Collector-stealer: a Russian origin credential and information extractor

Collector-stealer, a piece of malware of Russian origin, is heavily used on the Internet to exfiltrate sensitive data from end-user systems and store it in its C&C panels. In this article, researchers Aditya K Sood and Rohit Chaturvedi present a 360…

Fighting Fire with Fire

In 1989, Joe Wells encountered his first virus: Jerusalem. He disassembled the virus, and from that moment onward, was intrigued by the properties of these small pieces of self-replicating code. Joe Wells was an expert on computer viruses, was partly…

Run your malicious VBA macros anywhere!

Kurt Natvig wanted to understand whether it’s possible to recompile VBA macros to another language, which could then easily be ‘run’ on any gateway, thus revealing a sample’s true nature in a safe manner. In this article he explains how he recompiled…

Bulletin Archive