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 [...]
Commtouch Labs alerted me to a recent outbreak that included a picture that was too funny not to share:
The image and a corresponding URL were sent out around the world in an extremely large quantity, meaning that the probability of it being spam is high. (Not to toot our own horn, but…well…ok maybe we will…our [...]
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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Press Release about the award [...]
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 [...]
I just returned from Infosecurity UK in London, and besides enjoying the (not very) occasional beer I got to mingle with dozens of Commtouch business contacts and licensing partners at this annual security event. It was great to see lots of old friends in new places (it seems hardly anyone ever leaves infosec, they just [...]
When an email from one our employees to his loan officer asking about re-financing his mortgage got blocked by his bank’s spam filter, we decided to look into the phenomenon a little more closely. Turns out that spammers are leveraging the refinancing fervor that was sparked by the Fed’s rate cut last week, causing a [...]
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.
We all know that the evil forces behind spam, beyond being evil, are also quite prolific. In the tit-for-tat war between junkmail senders and the anti-spam community, the junkers have come up with yet another trick – PDF spam. Some of what we are seeing is really just ‘Image spam 2.0′ because it’s just another [...]
