It looks like spammers also get nostalgic around the holiday season. The spammer who sent these stock scams, must have been reminiscing about old-fashioned text spam when this outbreak was concocted. The sad truth is this kind of low-tech spam can still get thru a lot of content-based filters, since the trading symbol of a [...]
Some fun with Thanksgiving-related spam messages:
date our sexually explicit singles on thanksgiving weekend
get the cash you need before thanksgiving
get your thanksgiving cash now!
need cash for thanksgiving? try us
lose those heavy thanksgiving meals
re: thanksgiving pounds, enjoy our complimentary bottle
Thank Friends with these Thanksgiving Cards
At least the last three have something to do with the holiday…
Happy Thanksgiving [...]
There is no shortage of email scams out there, many of them appearing to be job offers from legitimate employment websites such as careerbuilder.com and monster.com. A UK based website www.bobbear.co.uk is striking back by publishing an updated web repository of such scams. Now anyone who wants to check if the job inquiry they got [...]
Imagine receiving an anonymous email from someone who claims to be a private detective, who proves that he is listening to your phone calls by attaching a tape-recording to the email message. Intrigued enough to click on the attachment? Perhaps, if you have something to hide…
Preying on exactly these fears is latest malware attack, in [...]
It seems the wicked of the computer world have officially sold out. According to a recently released report by Panda Security virus writers are no longer interested in old fashioned havoc-wreaking worms. The notorious script kiddies of the past have either sold out or been replaced by money hungry trespassers, who now focus on revenue [...]
Security blogger Dancho Danchev brings up several good points in his blog post triggered by Commtouch’s new Malware Outbreak Center.
I agree that without traditional AV in place, most companies would be exposed to many “in the wild” viruses like Netsky. It’s plain irresponsible to not have protection in place for the daily bombardment of these [...]
Commtouch publicized the new Malware Outbreak Center earlier this week, a resource on our web site to learn about new malware variants, and comparative catch-times for each of the AV engines. All very nice info for Commtouch commercial purposes, to try to convince AV and mail security vendors to add Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection [...]
