Commtouch Q3 Update

October 8th, 2007 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Miscellaneous | Leave a comment »

The company announced today that 9 new OEM deals were signed in Q3, bringing the total licensing partners to 82.
Which begs the obvious question: why are there still so many companies looking for innovative, content-neutral anti-spam and anti-malware solutions? The answer may be in the Osterman report quoted in the press release, which states that [...]

Excel spam may go viral

July 31st, 2007 by Batya | Category: Email Security | Leave a comment »

McAfee security researcher Nick Kelly raised a concern on his blog that the recent rash of Excel spam could develop to include macro exploits. We did see a mini-macro comeback last year, so this is certainly a possibility, though I haven’t seen any samples yet.
PDF spam could also carry a potential malware threat as that [...]

Excel Spam

July 23rd, 2007 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Data & Research | Leave a comment »

Well it’s about time someone decided to distribute a stock pump&dump message inside an excel file.
Commtouch first identified and blocked this new type of spam on Saturday, July 21, at 1:20 pm GMT. The Excel spam promotes stocks in file attachments with names like “invoice20202.xls,” “stock information-3572.xls,” and “requested report.xls.”
Of course this seems like a [...]