I may have disappeared for the last couple weeks, but the spam and malware did not, so this post is a roundup of various outbreaks that I wasn’t able to report on at the moment they happened. In parentheses is the date I would have (should’ve could’ve) reported on these items had I been truly [...]
Is there any holiday spammers and malware writers won’t celebrate? This just in from our detection center - blended threat emails along a July 4 Independence Day theme, with Subjects like “Happy July 4″ and content… well see for yourself in the example below:
Don’t click on links in emails like this, folks… guaranteed to turn [...]
I just returned from Madrid, where I represented Commtouch at 3Com’s TechConnect EMEA event, which was a great time. Together with 3Com’s Sean Newman, Product Manager, I presented the new messaging security in 3Com’s X-Family Unified Security Platforms to eager attendees comprised of their extended sales force. People are excited about the new GlobalView Mail [...]
Commtouch detection team identified a new email-borne malware outbreak yesterday, another in the “love” themed attacks. It is a blended threat, with simple love-oriented subjects, and within the body of the email message a hyperlink to a site that downloads a malware file - a Storm worm variant known as Zhelatin or Nuwar. Our lab [...]
I just got back from a long, hot but very enjoyable day trip with the Israeli team to the Sea of Galilee, so I’ll keep this brief (and will post the pics from the trip tomorrow). Commtouch spam analysts informed me about a new outbreak of “love” malware which began around 18:00 UK time yesterday, [...]
It’s serious egg on my face time. Let me explain.
To track our interaction with partners and potential partners, we use the well-known CRM system, Salesforce.com. As I have mentioned in a previous post, we try to be very careful only to email people to who have requested to receive our mail. This is [...]
I just returned from Infosecurity UK in London, and besides enjoying the (not very) occasional beer I got to mingle with dozens of Commtouch business contacts and licensing partners at this annual security event. It was great to see lots of old friends in new places (it seems hardly anyone ever leaves infosec, they just [...]
I had planned to blog from RSA in San Francisco last week, even if it meant just one line every now & then. But I was so caught up in meetings, and visiting our partners on the show floor, and oh yes, our happy hour , that somehow blogging took a back [...]
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 [...]
The Ferris daily post pointed me to the Symantec site to see more zombie deconstruction. Take a look at Armado Hidalgo’s post
TAB: So, what is the purpose of all this renewed activity, you ask? The primary goal is to create a botnet that sends tons and tons of penny stock spam (but because the botnet [...]
