Commtouch announced a new version of our GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, that incorporates enhanced reporting as well as enhanced logic capabilities.
From earlier posts you’ve seen that zombies (aka bots) are responsible for almost all of the unwanted mail traversing the Internet. With even a not-very-good reputation service, you should be able to cut those quantities [...]
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 [...]
Commtouch recently announced our Q2 email threat trend report, which indicated, among other things:
Spam levels throughout the second quarter averaged 77%, ranging from a low of 64% to a peak of 94% of all email towards the end of the quarter
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Commtouch detection team informed me that a new blended threat outbreak of Chinese Earthquake messages began earlier today, with a similar modus operandi to the previous outbreak, the main difference being that the URL hyperlinks within the messages are to zombie IP addresses (the X’s in the sample below), rather than fast flux domains in [...]
For some people, hearing about China digging itself out of one of the worst earthquakes in recent memory inspires them to do good works, donate money, join the Peace Corps…. For spammers it is merely inspiration for the next wave of social engineering to attempt to recruit a new army of zombies. Building on human [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Last month we released our new service – GlobalView Zombie Intelligence. Commtouch Zombie Intelligence is a real-time feed of data containing zombies IPs along with rich information about their activity and behavior.
As a result of our research and development in the field of zombies and bots, we are constantly gathering a vast amount of data [...]
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 [...]
It was a given that malware writers would roll out a new Valentine’s Day campaign, with the holiday of love just two days away. But who knew that they could be such creative artists with the pictures they choose to deliver their malicious software? OK, they probably stole the valentine’s pics from a legitimate site, [...]
