Spammers are always looking for ways to get their message past anti-spam filters, and HTML manipulations are part of their regular bag of tricks, but this one just looked so cool I wanted to share it with you. At first glance, it looks like the spammer simply wrote “Viagra vs. Cialis” vertically (that in itself [...]
Commtouch announced a new version of our GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, that incorporates enhanced reporting as well as enhanced logic capabilities.
From earlier posts you’ve seen that zombies (aka bots) are responsible for almost all of the unwanted mail traversing the Internet. With even a not-very-good reputation service, you should be able to cut those quantities [...]
How ironic - malware distributors are using the vulnerabilities inherent in IE (and other browsers) to distribute malware purporting to be an Internet Explorer update!
The spammers did a few things to make the message appear to be legitimately from Microsoft, spoofing a Microsoft from address, and copy-pasting the MSN text into the bottom. Of course, [...]
After distributing outlandish headlines for months, malware distributors have taken the next logical step and are starting to package them together in email newsletters, more specifically, pretending to be “CNN Daily Top 10″ headline email newsletters. Here is a sample email:
Each enticing headline in the message links to a malware site, not to CNN, [...]
During the past several months, I have met with industry thought leaders in network security products and services to discuss the growing threats of botnets, zombies and other ways to describe the issue of compromised hosts.
One of the topics of conversation: what will the bots do next? And do these swiss-army knives of badware [...]
