Spammers and virus writers have latched onto holidays and ecards to distribute their malicious messages, and here’s a recent outbreak that blends both together, just in time for the New Year’s Holiday. Samples similar to the screenshot below were first seen in Commtouch Detection Centers on December 25, 14:45 GMT (I guess the spammers assumed [...]
To our friends, colleagues and partners in Israel and throughout the world celebrating Rosh Hashana, best wishes for a sweet, healthy New Year.
When my colleague Nikki and I started brainstorming a name for our new Commtouch blog, we thought about all that we hoped it could accomplish:
show the face & voice of the people behind Commtouch’s technology
share the type of informal information that we are exposed to daily just wandering the halls here, that might also interest [...]
I just came across an interesting article in IT Management which called the Happy New Year malware a “hoax” since it is not as malicious as people originally thought. It “only” spams the infected users’ contacts with a stock manipulation scam.
Which brings me to the question - does malware have to do something bad in [...]
