Well-crafted emails mimicking Amazon order confirmations have been detected in large quantities in the past week. The Amazon logo and “your account” button actually take image files from the Amazon website. The email includes twelve links designed to motivate recipients to click:
More information about an Amazon Visa card
The ordered items are not shown and are [...]
By now you know not to believe those emails promising overnight wealth with very little effort – right? Seriously.
These spam campaigns apparently still attract enough clickers. The subjects in a recent outbreak were typically bold and the emails featured short one-liners promising work-from-home riches.
The clever touch was providing a link that exploits redirect functionality supported [...]
Commtouch has just wrapped up a very busy first quarter of 2010, in which our Business Development team participated in five major industry events and we announced two new products.
Starting in mid-February, the Americas team attended the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) event in San Francisco. The week following MAWWG, the team set up a [...]
Commtouch Security Alliance partners Sunbelt Software, RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Commtouch held an informative webcast this past Thursday discussing the latest in web security threats. The webcast, entitled “Stormy Web Ahead: A Forecast of Web Security Threats in 2010,” provided essential information needed to understand the web security threats that organizations and [...]
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” [...]
Amir Lev, Commtouch CTO and president, is now blogging over at ComputerWorld. Each week, he’ll explore new and interesting messaging and Web security trends and topics including:
Spammer tricks
Spam legality around the world
Cultural aspects of spam
Cultural aspects of web filtering
Mac OS malware
“419″ advance-fee fraud
In his first post, Spam Culture, part I: China, Amir examines how cultural [...]
Commtouch Labs alerted me today to a very convincing Gmail phishing scam. The scam was so convincing, that I had to open the REAL Gmail log-in page and flip back and forth to compare the inconsistencies.
Check it out…
This is the fake Gmail log-in page, built to trick people into entering their username and password.
Once entered, [...]
There are a variety of URL filtering solutions out there. As a result, you find yourself evaluating these solutions both on their business and technology infrastructures. In our experience of providing URL filtering solutions, we’ve came across all sorts of methodologies to evaluate the underlying technology. Since there is no standard to test these solutions, [...]
The major news of the second quarter was the massive rise in email-borne viruses not caught by major anti-virus engines. One explanation for the dramatic rise is the appearance of aggressive new variants of several different Trojans. Anti-virus companies have been unable to produce new signatures in time to protect their customers. Some companies try [...]
Sourceforge.net is one of the most well-respected technology download sites on the Internet, as evidenced by its Google page rank of 9 (out of possible 10), and the fact that it is ranked among the top 200 sites according to Alexa. However, recently Sourceforge became a lesson in the perils of user generated content (or [...]
