OK the title is a lousy play on words, but the new spam tactic with hyperlinks to Flash files is actually pretty neat. You most likely know by now that spammers will look for any way to bypass content-based anti-spam filters. And they tried a new trick today: sending spam messages whose hyperlink call to [...]
I may have disappeared for the last couple weeks, but the spam and malware did not, so this post is a roundup of various outbreaks that I wasn’t able to report on at the moment they happened. In parentheses is the date I would have (should’ve could’ve) reported on these items had I been truly [...]
Sawadika (that’s hello in Thai)…
What could be better than fresh pineapple juice? The answer is fresh pineapple juice in the morning on one of the beautiful Andaman ocean beaches in Phuket, Thailand. Well, I had to make do with the fresh pineapple juice and a walk down to the OPSEC pavilion, but still not that [...]
I know some people get excited about the prospect of a new video of Angelina Jolie (with or without her new twins), but it’s not recommended to download one that ends in “.exe” since it’s most likely malware
Building on the trend from the past few months of using standard MSN messages (links and [...]
Commtouch recently announced our Q2 email threat trend report, which indicated, among other things:
Spam levels throughout the second quarter averaged 77%, ranging from a low of 64% to a peak of 94% of all email towards the end of the quarter
10 [...]
Something about the “rockets red glare” of July 4th must have gotten the Storm Wormers in the mood for aggressive action, and the next outbreak has been a faux invasion of Iran, with the following malware web site:
Based on a quick scan of the iran_occupation.exe malware file by VirusTotal, the results show that only 14 [...]
Is there any holiday spammers and malware writers won’t celebrate? This just in from our detection center - blended threat emails along a July 4 Independence Day theme, with Subjects like “Happy July 4″ and content… well see for yourself in the example below:
Don’t click on links in emails like this, folks… guaranteed to turn [...]
Commtouch Enterprise Anti-Spam Gateway is a nice and very effective product [hey, I am objective:)] that helps enterprises to block spam and virus outbreaks. It’s been out there for a long time and it has a solid base of loyal and happy customers all over the world. I know, because I’ve been supporting this product [...]
Recently there has been a lot of discussion and reports about an increasing amount of NDR messages triggered by spam. Since the NDR problem become a major factor in the spam world, and I noticed that there are some confusion about it, I thought it’s important that I’ll give a short overview of the problem [...]
