Scammers came out with some adwords phishing scams around 1 month ago and in the last few days have started a new round. Subject lines include:
your adwords google account is stoped (sic)
account reactivation.
please re-activate your account.
please re-submit your payment information.
please submit your payment information.
please update your billing information.
reactivate your adwords google account.
submit your payment information.
update [...]
Here’s a new one provided to me yesterday by our detection center; I had to think about it for a day or so to try to figure out what they were doing. A spam outbreak contained messages driving to the following (slightly edited by me) pornography site:
Looks pretty self-explanatory. But then, if you [...]
I just returned from Infosecurity UK in London, and besides enjoying the (not very) occasional beer I got to mingle with dozens of Commtouch business contacts and licensing partners at this annual security event. It was great to see lots of old friends in new places (it seems hardly anyone ever leaves infosec, they just [...]
As usual, marketing guru Seth Godin has something useful and interesting to say, in this case about his disappointment with spam filters that block his legitimate mail (both mail he was supposed to receive, and mail he had sent to others).
“Stopping spam is a worthless endeavor when you also stop non-spam,” he writes.
Hear hear! I [...]
Now that I have been officially accepted into the “Security Bloggers Group” on LinkedIn (very cool!), I realize it’s time I shared some of my opinions on things rather than simply reporting on this or that malware outbreak (although some of you have indicated to me that the objective reporting of news in the messaging [...]
I had planned to blog from RSA in San Francisco last week, even if it meant just one line every now & then. But I was so caught up in meetings, and visiting our partners on the show floor, and oh yes, our happy hour , that somehow blogging took a back [...]
As always, spammers are looking for the “news hook” to get their spam through to users’ inboxes. And this week is no holiday, but it is (in the USA at least) tax season. With taxes due April 15, spammers have geared up their efforts at spewing out quantities of tax-related spam. Here is a selection [...]
Similar to earlier holiday messages, malware distributors are taking advantage of the atmosphere of April Fools’ Day to send “jokes” linking to malware sites. The messages are short text messages, with a hyperlink to a web site hosted at an IP address (usually indicative of a zombie outbreak).
Subject lines include:
All Fools’ Day
April Fools’ Day
Doh! All’s [...]
