I know some people get excited about the prospect of a new video of Angelina Jolie (with or without her new twins), but it’s not recommended to download one that ends in “.exe” since it’s most likely malware
Building on the trend from the past few months of using standard MSN messages (links and [...]
A message promising Paris Hilton topless includes a hyperlink that appears innocent - the words “download it now” link to a page that begins http://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=trailhead&num=69803&adurl=http://…
[this link won't work since I've truncated it on purpose].
The site automatically downloads a Trojan malware called “trailer.exe”. Nothing new under the sun….
Commtouch Labs is reporting mid-level volumes of a love-themed blended attack generated from zombies. The messages are tiny (around 2k), and have a love-oriented subject (e.g. “Memories of you”), and a short love-oriented message in the body (e.g. “A token of my love”; “falling in love with you”; “Happy I’ll be your bride”), with 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnD50mSvLPk
Spammers and virus writers have latched onto holidays and ecards to distribute their malicious messages, and here’s a recent outbreak that blends both together, just in time for the New Year’s Holiday. Samples similar to the screenshot below were first seen in Commtouch Detection Centers on December 25, 14:45 GMT (I guess the spammers assumed [...]
The beauty of having a system the works automatically is that we don’t necessarily notice big outbreaks until they’ve already happened and been blocked (and even then we need to look for them). That’s what turned out to have been happening the last couple weeks, when the makers of the Stration malware - one of [...]
Imagine receiving an anonymous email from someone who claims to be a private detective, who proves that he is listening to your phone calls by attaching a tape-recording to the email message. Intrigued enough to click on the attachment? Perhaps, if you have something to hide…
Preying on exactly these fears is latest malware attack, in [...]
Security blogger Dancho Danchev brings up several good points in his blog post triggered by Commtouch’s new Malware Outbreak Center.
I agree that without traditional AV in place, most companies would be exposed to many “in the wild” viruses like Netsky. It’s plain irresponsible to not have protection in place for the daily bombardment of these [...]
Commtouch publicized the new Malware Outbreak Center earlier this week, a resource on our web site to learn about new malware variants, and comparative catch-times for each of the AV engines. All very nice info for Commtouch commercial purposes, to try to convince AV and mail security vendors to add Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection [...]
Spammers have once again sunk their fangs into Halloween and flooded email with holiday themed threats. When I was a kid parents feared tainted trick-or-treat candy. Now they can add spyware and computer viruses to their list of worries.
Keep your eyes out for a “dancing skeleton” spam attack which contains links to malicious web sites. [...]
