I’ve written about the phenomenon of spammers hiding their content in Google Docs before, and we’re starting to see new outbreaks using this trick. Why should spammers bother to serve up their content on Google Docs, rather than use their own hosting locations? Well, we saw what happened when McColo was taken down, which demonstrates [...]
For those of you optimists who thought the post-McColo low spam levels would stay depressed indefinitely, well, I guess the time has come to face the fact that there is no Santa Claus. And no spam-related reason to give thanks at tomorrow’s Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. Because spam levels are creeping back up. Not [...]
Starting next month, the Israeli anti-spam law will be coming into effect. The new law deals with unwanted postal mail, text messages, and phone calls in addition to email. It has more in common with the European law than the US CAN-SPAM act, since it requires senders/callers to have a record of the recipient’s having [...]
Remember when image spam was something new and kind of cool? (that was early 2006 in case you forgot). Why did it nearly disappear? For one thing, the anti-spam filters got better at blocking it, so it wasn’t as profitable for the spammers. But it looks like the spammers haven’t given up completely, and this [...]
This morning when I dropped by the spam analysts’ work area for my daily check of “what’s new in spam” I noticed they were in a bit of a tizzy. Spam levels had dropped from their usual high levels and they were looking for the reason why.
We’ve seen spam levels growing pretty steadily over the [...]
The flood of Barack Obama-related spam and malware messages unleashed in the past week does not appear to be abating. What started as a simple blended threat outbreak, offering to show recipients his speech (but instead downloading the malware executable barackobama.exe) has morphed into messages purporting to show an Obama sex scandal.
Outbreak that began November [...]
Commtouch is pleased to have been selected as #7 in the 2008 Deloitte Israel Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Israel. To determine the fastest growing companies, Deloitte reviewed fiscal year revenues over five years (2003-2007), calculated the revenue growth percentage over five years, and compared [...]
