Way back in March, CTO Amir Lev was quoted in a SearchSecurity article as saying that audio spam shouldn’t be too far away. We even went so far as to create some samples in our labs (no, we didn’t give them to any spammers :). And finally, as of late last night, the spammers have [...]
Commtouch just identified a new spam technique that spammers have been experimenting with massively over the past 24 hours: spam with a zipped attachment, sometimes password-protected, and the zip contains a text file with a stock promotion. Some facts:
1) Commtouch identified this new type of “Zip spam” yesterday (July 30) at 10 pm GMT, and [...]
Well it’s about time someone decided to distribute a stock pump&dump message inside an excel file.
Commtouch first identified and blocked this new type of spam on Saturday, July 21, at 1:20 pm GMT. The Excel spam promotes stocks in file attachments with names like “invoice20202.xls,” “stock information-3572.xls,” and “requested report.xls.”
Of course this seems like a [...]
ICSA Labs, a division of CyberTrust, announced the formation of the Anti-Spam Product Developers’ Consortium on April 11, 2007.
Among the coalition members companies like Astaro, COMDOM, Fortinet, IBM, Kaspersky, Proofpoint, SECNAP, Sendio, SonicWALL and Symantec. The coalition plans to meet regularly to discuss issues and devlopments in world of the spam and spam-fighting, to provide [...]
When my colleague Nikki and I started brainstorming a name for our new Commtouch blog, we thought about all that we hoped it could accomplish:
show the face & voice of the people behind Commtouch’s technology
share the type of informal information that we are exposed to daily just wandering the halls here, that might also interest [...]
