No, not really – but a recent outbreak seems to use no technique at all to get recipients to click on a link to a malware-hosting site. The emails (samples below) have no subject (other than RE: or FW:), no text telling you why you should click on the link, no hidden URLs behind on-screen [...]
The Commtouch detection center has confirmed that an email I received yesterday on one of my private accounts was part of a mass phishing attack aimed at Blogger (and Google) users. In this case I suspected it was a phishing email before opening it since I received it via an email address that is not [...]
According to Ultrascan, scammers’ income increased from $6.3 billion in 2008 to $9.3 billion in 2009.
February is Scam Awareness Month – Scamnesty 2010 – under the auspices of the UK Office of Fair Trading. UK Consumers can forward their scam mail and SMSs, and even deliver old-fashioned paper letters to Scamnesty Bins located around the [...]
A recent article in the New Scientist entitled “To beat spam, turn its own weapons against it”, describes the work done by a team of academics to find a more effective way to filter spam. The team, from ICSI Berkeley and UC San Diego, have come up with a way of analyzing the spam email messages sent by [...]
