Image spam on the whole is on the decline, and stock pump-and-dump has all but disappeared. But image spam hasn’t been eliminated altogether. Lately our spam detection center has seen a significant increase in pornographic image spam (the URLs are part of the picture), as well as “cut” image spam. The cut images appear to [...]
A massive attack this weekend has been inundating users with emails with subjects like “Wow, Cool Games” and the like. The content of the email messages contain only “Try http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where the X’s are varying IP addresses. At one point our spam detection lab was seeing over 80 new and different IP addresses flying by [...]
To our friends, colleagues and partners in Israel and throughout the world celebrating Rosh Hashana, best wishes for a sweet, healthy New Year.
We came across a very well-built spam attack that uses a different link for every item, and each link leads to a different legitimate site, in which the spammer has installed a rogue page.
Sample spam message
The NFL season just began, and the virus writers are already hard at work trying to turn it to their advantage. This weekend, Commtouch labs identified an outbreak of NFL-related spam messages with links to a malware site. The content of the messages varied along this theme: “Football is back, Life may resume again! Never [...]
Several Commtouch folks just returned from Munich where they exhibited at the third (and final, for 2007) Check Point Experience event, Check Point’s premier customer event held in several locations around the world. With over 1000 people in attendance, the excitement was high surrounding Commtouch’s Anti-Spam, Zero Hour virus outbreak protection & Reputation Services. Excitement [...]
A new trick has emerged, with a 419 scam (those guys who try to woo you with free money, but really end up stealing your money) promoted through a photo sharing site - in this case Kodak EasyShare Gallery. It’s an easy way for these scammers to send email without being blocked, since blocking all [...]
