The most important relationships can be hard to maintain but are worth every effort.
Then there are the relationships you don’t want to maintain at all – but once you find yourself in them, you realize you can’t get out.
In a recent study conducted for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), of which Commtouch is a [...]
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few days, the big news is that Michael Jackson died. Yes…THAT Michael Jackson. The King of Pop. The Thriller. The one who introduced the world to the Moonwalk and a solitary glittery glove.
In the wake of his untimely death, cyber criminals have used his [...]
Cousin Kimmy just sent me a link to a Hallmark holiday e-card. How sweet!
…wait a minute…
I don’t think it’s really from Hallmark.
…wait a minute…
I don’t even have a cousin Kimmy!
Malicious code writers are at it again this holiday season. The latest trend is a plain text or very simple email that looks like it has [...]
The flood of Barack Obama-related spam and malware messages unleashed in the past week does not appear to be abating. What started as a simple blended threat outbreak, offering to show recipients his speech (but instead downloading the malware executable barackobama.exe) has morphed into messages purporting to show an Obama sex scandal.
Outbreak that began November [...]
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://…
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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.
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 [...]
