During the fourth quarter of 2009, the Mal-Bredo A virus continued to circulate the world for the second quarter in a row. Cybercriminals morphed its packaging from attachments that appeared to be from internationally known package delivery companies to attachments that appeared to be from Facebook, the popular social networking site.
Throughout the quarter, the number [...]
Typically, one associates phishing schemes with online banking passwords and related issues. Commtouch Labs recently reported on a brand new scheme involving the popular online role playing game, World of Warcraft (WoW). Apparently once an account is hacked, there is money to be made by selling a user’s “gold,” equipment, and even the account itself. [...]
In continuing with the tradition we began last year, Commtouch has made a donation to a charitable organization in the spirit of the holidays. With the help of Charity Navigator, we chose four 4-star organizations and asked our partners and friends to help choose the organization (or organizations) to which we would make our contribution. [...]
Commtouch Labs reported a recent attack involving MP3 messages. The email body and subject line were blank, as seen below, and each message had an MP3 attached to it. The MP3s are all very short and only about 16KB per message in order to trick traditional spam filters.
While the emails were all subject-less, the MP3s [...]
Commtouch Labs has seen a new trend in personal enhancement spam. Where in the past, these messages have been directed at men with subjects like Let your ‘gun’ be steel and The more inches you have the more times your lady will hit the point, this new variation is directed at women whose men have [...]
Commtouch Labs has run across a brilliant blended threat campaign organized by a body pretending to be the Centers for Disease Control. The attack, originating from Chinese botnets, began on the morning (EST) of 1 December 2009 and is still going strong. By the time of this publication, the attack had been flagged as “massive” [...]
As a messaging and Web security company, we see our fair share of spam in helping our customers get rid of theirs. Recently, I got curious and went poking around to see what new things spammers are trying to sell or announce and I found myself laughing hysterically. Some of the subject lines were just [...]
Unbeknownst to computer owners, malware infects millions of computers around the world. Many times, these malicious software programs create “zombies,” or “bots” where the computer is taken over by an outside party and used to send spam or perform other notorious processes. An army of zombies makes up a “botnet,” which is a network of [...]
Halloween is always a fun holiday for cybercriminals. Spam, malware, phishing…the works. The Commtouch Labs reported on several different Halloween schemes this season.
One spam attack surfaced in multiple languages. The subjects read like this:
… reduzierte preise fuer halloween! programme fuer pc & mac
… reduction des prix de l’halloween! programmes pour pc et mac
… prezzi piu [...]
We’re glowing with pride about the achievements of two Commtouch partners who recently received 4-star rating from SC Magazine, and wanted to share the news with you. Congratulations to Check Point and GateProtect, whose Unified Threat Management (UTM) devices were reviewed and rated: Check Point’s UTM-1 136 and GateProtect’s GPA 400.
Check Point’s UTM-1 136 includes [...]
