Next time you have some Viagra to sell or malware to spread, forget those passé, brute-force directory attacks. You don’t have to generate email addresses with all those alphanumeric characters or “typical” names and email structures, such as jane.smith@FORTUNE500COMPANY.com. And you especially don’t have to take days to deliver them slooowly and methodically so corporate [...]
A new outbreak of ASCII art spam has graced the ‘net; most recently blogged about on Mashable, it has reappeared of late, now flogging – what else – sexual enhancement meds. For those of you unfamiliar with ASCII art, it is a historic (if you’re counting history in Internet time) way of drawing a picture [...]
Please join with me in celebrating the prestigious award that Commtouch was just honored with: The Frost & Sullivan 2008 European Messaging Security Technology Innovation of the Year Award, in recognition of Commtouch’s “superior protection of email inboxes around the globe from unwanted and malicious email.”
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OK the title is a lousy play on words, but the new spam tactic with hyperlinks to Flash files is actually pretty neat. You most likely know by now that spammers will look for any way to bypass content-based anti-spam filters. And they tried a new trick today: sending spam messages whose hyperlink call to [...]
Spam in Chinese is problematic for traditional content-filtering anti-spam engines for several reasons:
Chinese characters are “double-byte”, as opposed to “single-byte” like non-Asian languages. The second byte is due to the fact that one byte isn’t enough to transmit all the necessary information since the alphabet is so much larger than western languages like, for example, [...]
Commtouch detection team identified a new email-borne malware outbreak yesterday, another in the “love” themed attacks. It is a blended threat, with simple love-oriented subjects, and within the body of the email message a hyperlink to a site that downloads a malware file – a Storm worm variant known as Zhelatin or Nuwar. Our lab [...]
John never knew how many friends he had…until he opened the door to a truckload of spam. A short, funny movie about Commtouch RPD technology.
People are used to seeing Viagra or fake Rolexes promoted in spam, but have you ever seen spam that is selling fake Rolexes (and other replicas) that never mentions it in the email? Makes it hard for content filters to flag it as spam… Take a look at something Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection picked up [...]
