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. [...]
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 [...]
Peter Wang is really worried about the Commtouch domain. He sent us the very official-looking email seen below (complete with spelling and grammar mistakes) warning us that some guy “named ‘raymond marcus’ wanted to applied for the Internet brand ‘commtouch’ and some domain names through” their body.
I’m not even really sure what that means. Raymond [...]
Way back in March, CTO Amir Lev was quoted in a SearchSecurity article as saying that audio spam shouldn’t be too far away. We even went so far as to create some samples in our labs (no, we didn’t give them to any spammers . And finally, as of late last night, the spammers [...]
Pretty @#$% quickly if you heard Amir Lev, Commtouch’s CTO speaking at the Ferris Webinar yesterday, together with Ferris’ Richi Jennings.
The webinar was about understanding mail reputation services, and Amir gave an overview of different types of reputation services, as well as a sneak peak into Commtouch’s GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, a new version of [...]
Image spam tricks spam filters, clogs networks
By Sue Hildreth, contributor
15 Mar 2007 | SearchSecurity.com
”A picture is worth a thousand words,” goes the old saying. What is true in art and journalism is proving equally apt in the more modern field of spam. As the recent surge in image-based spam shows, pictures can be a very [...]
