What Will Zombies/Bots Do Next?

August 3rd, 2008 by Jay | Category: Email Security, Zombies/Botnets | Leave a comment »

During the past several months, I have met with industry thought leaders in network security products and services to discuss the growing threats of botnets, zombies and other ways to describe the issue of compromised hosts.
One of the topics of conversation: what will the bots do next? And do these swiss-army knives of badware [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day (celebrated in spam)

March 16th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

Spammers and spyware operators are trying the luck of the Irish to get some more unsuspecting folks into their web. Here’s the latest St. Patty’s day ecard spam outbreak shared with me by our global detection center. Click the link and if you are based in the US you will have some spyware downloaded to [...]