Phishing is the easiest way for criminals to find out your username and password; they simply ask you for it.
Many password thieves send emails pretending to be from your bank, Facebook or PayPal, among others. These messages explain that a problem exists with your account and include a request that you “verify” your username and [...]
No, not really – but a recent outbreak seems to use no technique at all to get recipients to click on a link to a malware-hosting site. The emails (samples below) have no subject (other than RE: or FW:), no text telling you why you should click on the link, no hidden URLs behind on-screen [...]
The Commtouch detection center has confirmed that an email I received yesterday on one of my private accounts was part of a mass phishing attack aimed at Blogger (and Google) users. In this case I suspected it was a phishing email before opening it since I received it via an email address that is not [...]
According to Ultrascan, scammers’ income increased from $6.3 billion in 2008 to $9.3 billion in 2009.
February is Scam Awareness Month – Scamnesty 2010 – under the auspices of the UK Office of Fair Trading. UK Consumers can forward their scam mail and SMSs, and even deliver old-fashioned paper letters to Scamnesty Bins located around the [...]
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 reported a recent attack involving MP3 messages. The email body and subject line were blank, as seen below, and each message had an MP3 attached to it. The MP3s are all very short and only about 16KB per message in order to trick traditional spam filters.
While the emails were all subject-less, the MP3s [...]
Commtouch Labs has seen a new trend in personal enhancement spam. Where in the past, these messages have been directed at men with subjects like Let your ‘gun’ be steel and The more inches you have the more times your lady will hit the point, this new variation is directed at women whose men have [...]
Commtouch Labs has run across a brilliant blended threat campaign organized by a body pretending to be the Centers for Disease Control. The attack, originating from Chinese botnets, began on the morning (EST) of 1 December 2009 and is still going strong. By the time of this publication, the attack had been flagged as “massive” [...]
As a messaging and Web security company, we see our fair share of spam in helping our customers get rid of theirs. Recently, I got curious and went poking around to see what new things spammers are trying to sell or announce and I found myself laughing hysterically. Some of the subject lines were just [...]
Several of us recently returned from various hosting-oriented events, including Parallels EMEA Roadshow and cPanel in Texas. We talked to lots of people there that have developed their own homegrown solutions for email filtering, often based on open source; here are the top 10 reasons we heard for keeping their existing email filtering systems:
1. They [...]
