Happy St. Patrick’s Day (celebrated in spam)

March 16th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

Spammers and spyware operators are trying the luck of the Irish to get some more unsuspecting folks into their web. Here’s the latest St. Patty’s day ecard spam outbreak shared with me by our global detection center. Click the link and if you are based in the US you will have some spyware downloaded to [...]

More eCard Malware, Now Taking Advantage of Popular Russian Postcard Site

January 21st, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Email Security, Spam Favorites | 3 Comments »

Thought we were done with ecards? Not yet! Just in from our detection center: a new blended threat with emails in Russian and English, purporting to be a postcard from a friend from the popular postcard site postcard.ru, but actually links to a site that tries to download an .exe file to the user’s computer. [...]