In case you thought all the e-card malware was sent in English or Russian, of course other nations have their say as well. Here is an example of a recent outbreak of Chinese e-card messages that Arik from the spam analysis team shared with me. This is considered a “blended threat,” that is an email [...]
Luckily there are creative people who will take even one of the most annoying things - SPAM - and turn it into something positive, that is, artwork.
Artist Linzie Hunter has created a series of “one-liners” where she took spam subject lines and experimented with hand-lettering, turning them into works of art. Below is the cover [...]
A new blended threat outbreak started yesterday whose subject lines and contents are strangely reminiscent of the first “Storm” outbreak, which created outlandish headlines to socially engineer people to open the malware. In this case, the headlines are more topical to today, including:
Private investigation report on your colleague
Iran announces completion of nuclear weapon
Afghan captial in [...]
Several Commtouch folks (including myself) attended MAAWG in Ft. Lauderdale last week, along with many leading service providers, security vendors, and industry luminaries. Highlights included a botnet presentation by Commtouch’s CTO, Amir Lev, numerous discussions about the complexity of spam, malware and web abuse, and a golf outing with our partner Message Systems (see pics [...]
