Commtouch detection team informed me that a new blended threat outbreak of Chinese Earthquake messages began earlier today, with a similar modus operandi to the previous outbreak, the main difference being that the URL hyperlinks within the messages are to zombie IP addresses (the X’s in the sample below), rather than fast flux domains in [...]
For some people, hearing about China digging itself out of one of the worst earthquakes in recent memory inspires them to do good works, donate money, join the Peace Corps…. For spammers it is merely inspiration for the next wave of social engineering to attempt to recruit a new army of zombies. Building on human [...]
The Commtouch Detection Center has just reported that PDF spam has been spiking over the last 24 hours, making up 10-15% of all spam messages. Given the fact that these messages are nearly 4x bigger than ’standard’ spam messages, this increases overall global spam traffic by 30-40%.
The new technique of sending spam messages as a [...]
Virus signature update mistakes critical Windows files for malware.
“It’s a terrible day for lots of Chinese users (especially Enterprise Users) who use Norton products today,” CISRT said. “This issue has made a huge effection to Chinese people.” Other reports claimed that more than 7,000 users had already contacted Rising Antivirus, a Chinese security company, asked [...]
Bruce Einhorn’s article in Business Week entitled No Holiday for China’s Spam Fighters ,outlines how “Chinese officials are trying to combat Internet fraud, but in a nation reliant on unprotected, pirated software, they still have a long way to go”
Recent reports by google estimate 40 million internet-connected computer could be infected with Trojans. Prolexic says that over half the world’s zombies are in Asia.
40 million x 0.5 = 20 million zombies in Asia
Sound about right?
This may be easily explained as a consequense of population, since China and India alone account for 20% of the [...]
