Commtouch just identified a new spam technique that spammers have been experimenting with massively over the past 24 hours: spam with a zipped attachment, sometimes password-protected, and the zip contains a text file with a stock promotion. Some facts:
1) Commtouch identified this new type of “Zip spam” yesterday (July 30) at 10 pm GMT, and [...]
McAfee security researcher Nick Kelly raised a concern on his blog that the recent rash of Excel spam could develop to include macro exploits. We did see a mini-macro comeback last year, so this is certainly a possibility, though I haven’t seen any samples yet.
PDF spam could also carry a potential malware threat as that [...]
Well it’s about time someone decided to distribute a stock pump&dump message inside an excel file.
Commtouch first identified and blocked this new type of spam on Saturday, July 21, at 1:20 pm GMT. The Excel spam promotes stocks in file attachments with names like “invoice20202.xls,” “stock information-3572.xls,” and “requested report.xls.”
Of course this seems like a [...]
The FBI sent out a press announcement yesterday, warning the public about three scams. The three scams are:
-e-cards containing malware
-fraudulent emails misrepresenting the FBI using pictures of the FBI Director, seal, letter head, and/or banners
-email claiming to be from an official of the U.S. military sent on behalf of American soldiers stationed overseas
We have seen [...]
This just in from our detection center: malware distributors are starting to plant their malicious software into legitimate sites, in order to bypass traditional filtering engines. The minute the site in the email message is identified as legitimate, often email filters will assume the URL within the site is also legitimate, and will allow it [...]
The Commtouch Detection Center has just reported that PDF spam has been spiking over the last 24 hours, making up 10-15% of all spam messages. Given the fact that these messages are nearly 4x bigger than ’standard’ spam messages, this increases overall global spam traffic by 30-40%.
The new technique of sending spam messages as a [...]
We all know that the evil forces behind spam, beyond being evil, are also quite prolific. In the tit-for-tat war between junkmail senders and the anti-spam community, the junkers have come up with yet another trick - PDF spam. Some of what we are seeing is really just ‘Image spam 2.0′ because it’s just another [...]
Over the last week or so there has been an outbreak of a new type of email-borne malware. The latest wave of the notorious Storm malware is being distributed via emails that appear to be ecards sent by family and friends. The link to view the card leads users to a malicious website that attempts [...]
