Remember when image spam was something new and kind of cool? (that was early 2006 in case you forgot). Why did it nearly disappear? For one thing, the anti-spam filters got better at blocking it, so it wasn’t as profitable for the spammers. But it looks like the spammers haven’t given up completely, and this [...]
The original image-based spam embedded images in email messages, however it’s even simpler, and easier to fool anti-spam engines, to embed references to images in the HTML code of a message. What this means is that the source code of the message will pull an image from a remote server, assuming the reader is connected [...]
Pharmaceutical spammers typically include a URL in their emails since they want to direct recipients to visit their site and purchase their (usually counterfeit) viagra, cialis, etc. However URLs are pretty straightforward to block in many anti-spam solutions, so spammers are always looking for new ways to hide their URLs. A [...]
The Commtouch Detection Center identified a massive outbreak of pharmaceutical image spam that started last week, with a neat new trick: the spammers camouflaged
their messages as Hotmail welcome messages. They literally took the text and layout of the Hotmail messages and hid it within the body of the html source. They did another cute trick [...]
