No – of course it’s not a new product from our favorite tech trend-setters – but it’s not surprising to see the Apple name being used to generate subjects for pharmacy spam messages. It’s even less surprising to see the new iPad being used to attract curious clickers – especially as the millionth unit was sold. The iPad [...]
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 [...]
Spammers using legitimate file sharing services to bypass traditional spam filters is not a new tactic. We have seen many examples including the outbreak of spam using Pizza Hut and CBS images…or the time when ZDNet was exploited…and CNN…and Google Docs…and, well, you get the picture.
The Commtouch Labs recently reported an outbreak of Google Spreadsheet [...]
It seems the summer holiday has cleared the way for spammers to spend more time focusing on what they do best…clogging our inboxes and trying to trick users and filters alike. Analysts in the Commtouch Lab recently found an interesting example that demonstrates the lengths to which spammers will go to trick us, and I [...]
As the Swine Flu makes its way around the world and creates panic among travelers, spammers have tried to cash in on the frenzy. The Commtouch Labs recently reported on two different kinds of spam attacks that have incorporated the phrase “Swine Flu” as a means of social engineering — Swine Flu is such a [...]
For those of you optimists who thought the post-McColo low spam levels would stay depressed indefinitely, well, I guess the time has come to face the fact that there is no Santa Claus. And no spam-related reason to give thanks at tomorrow’s Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. Because spam levels are creeping back up. Not [...]
