Spammers are always looking for ways to get their message past anti-spam filters, and HTML manipulations are part of their regular bag of tricks, but this one just looked so cool I wanted to share it with you. At first glance, it looks like the spammer simply wrote “Viagra vs. Cialis” vertically (that in itself [...]
There’s been some talk about the latest incarnation of spam that perverts legitimate sites for the purpose of commercial spam, a subject we have been discussing for a while on this blog, starting back in January. A few interesting articles on Google Docs spam came out this week based on some outreach by MessageLabs. (InternetNews, [...]
Here’s a new one provided to me yesterday by our detection center; I had to think about it for a day or so to try to figure out what they were doing. A spam outbreak contained messages driving to the following (slightly edited by me) pornography site:
Looks pretty self-explanatory. But then, if you [...]
