It was just a matter of time before spammers tried to disguise their messages as legitimate “autoresponders” in order to bypass anti-spam engines. Most email servers deliver autoresponders to their recipients since this is one way to keep track if the message you originally sent was received by the intended recipient. If your recipient is [...]
Spammers and virus writers have latched onto holidays and ecards to distribute their malicious messages, and here’s a recent outbreak that blends both together, just in time for the New Year’s Holiday. Samples similar to the screenshot below were first seen in Commtouch Detection Centers on December 25, 14:45 GMT (I guess the spammers assumed [...]
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, spam and malware lurked behind every click of the mouse.
On December 24th, just in time for the holidays, the Commtouch Detection Center picked up a new blended threat spam outbreak. This time in the form of an innocent looking email with a not-so-innocent hyperlink to a [...]
People are used to seeing Viagra or fake Rolexes promoted in spam, but have you ever seen spam that is selling fake Rolexes (and other replicas) that never mentions it in the email? Makes it hard for content filters to flag it as spam… Take a look at something Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection picked up [...]
Earlier this week network security giant Check Point announce that it has integrated all three Commtouch email security technologies into its new UTM-1 network security appliance. By adding Commtouch Anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus outbreak detection & GlobalView mail reputation service, Check Point is showing serious commitment to defending against all types of email-borne threats.
This may come [...]
The beauty of having a system the works automatically is that we don’t necessarily notice big outbreaks until they’ve already happened and been blocked (and even then we need to look for them). That’s what turned out to have been happening the last couple weeks, when the makers of the Stration malware - one of [...]
Anti-Phishing Phil is an online game developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Usable Privacy and Security Lab (CUPS) with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and ARO/CyLab. It’s a fun way to test and improve your ability to spot phishing emails. Try the game out at: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/quiz/index.html
Just in case you thought we were kidding about the centrality of coffee and other hot beverages in Commtouch, check out this picture from the recent Hanukka party at Netanya HQ. Those are Moroccan teapots and glasses for the delicious sweet tea prepared especially for the occasion. Happy Holidays everyone!
ZDNet’s Richard Stiennon just published his Ten threat predictions for 2008. Number 8 on his list is an ominous warning that we ain’t seen nothing yet from the Storm Trojan peer-to-peer botnet:
8. The world learns what the Storm Trojan is for. The Storm Trojan is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever. It has [...]
Leading security company and Commtouch partner F-Secure published its semi-annual IT Security Threat Summary today. Their labs have seen the number of malware samples double since the beginning of 2007, from 250,000 to 500,000.
Source: F-Secure
It’s not so much that there are new types of malicious code, but that malware writers are mass producing slightly tweaked [...]
