Over 100,000 new phishing sites

IBM’s ISS X-Force content research team identified, studied and classified 114,013 brand new phishing sites during the period from June 11-18.
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Hoax FTC email spreading malware

Yet another clever socially-engineered email-borne malware attack has hit. This time a spoofed email was sent that appears to be an acknowledgment of a complaint filed by the recipient with the FTC. The message is personalized with name and company name and encourages opening the attachment by stating
“Attached you will find a copy of your [...]

Spammers launch DDOS attacks against anti-spam organizations.

SANS Institute reported on Monday, June 11 2007, that several well known anti-spam organizations such as Spamhaus, SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists) and URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklist) have been targeted in attempt to bring them down. For the full story read PC World article.

Commtouch NT Company Picnic

For this year’s company picnic, Commtouch Netanya participated in an agricultural workshop at a nearby pastoral farming village. We all had a great time, worked hard, got to know each other better and found a new mascot!

And made some bearded friends…

Worked together to create a feast…

And finally got to enjoy the fruits of our labors, [...]

Port 25 blocking spurred ISP email relay zombies

“This represents a new step in the evolution of spambots. Previously, these bots all tried to transmit directly from port 25, but with the advent of port 25 blocking by ISPs, this has become an obstacle. It was only a matter of time before spambots began trying to relay through mail servers.”
- Edward Flak’s May [...]

An anti-spam standard?

From Security_Watchdog blog:
“The Internet Engineering Task Force has granted preliminary approval to DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). The platform promises to kill spam by preventing spoofing. DomainKeys attaches an encrypted digital signature unique to the sender to each email when it is sent…. ”
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