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Pharma-Spam spielt kaum eine Rolle mehr Europa übernahm im Oktober und November 2012 die dominierende Rolle beim Spam-Versand. Dies geht aus dem eleven E-Mail Security Report Dezember 2012 hervor, den das Unternehmen heute vorstellte. So befanden sich sechs europäische Länder unter den zehn größten Spam-Versendern. Gemeinsam waren sie für mehr

So regelmäßig wie das Weihnachtsfest am Jahresende, so verlässlich treten auch jedes Jahr die Spam-E-Mails mit Weihnachtsangeboten in Erscheinung – unverlangt und unerwünscht. Die angeblichen Weihnachtsschnäppchen ziehen sich durch alle Spam-Themen: potenzsteigernde Medikamente, gefälschte Luxuswaren oder Dating-Angebote, nichts wird ausgelassen. Beispiele aus aktuellen Spam-Kampagnen zu Weihnachten Hier drei aktuelle Beispiele

Even stock scammers needed to put their plans on hold following the closure of stock markets for 2 days. In the typically worded email shown below, recipients are encouraged to buy into low-priced shares now that Hurricane Sandy has passed and trading has resumed. Interestingly, we see less topical spam

Sometimes the “other side” uses a neat trick that seems so obvious. In these cases we think “they must have done this before” – then we search the archives (Google) for proof that it has indeed been used before. A good example is our post from last year where we

Wednesday the 24th saw huge of amounts of email-attached malware distributed – all with an “office” theme. The attacks pushed the amount of email up by several hundred percent and totaled near five billion emails sent worldwide.  The first part of the day saw emails describing an attachment as being

At first glance this looked like a “standard” email-malware attack. As with many similar attacks the email pretends to be carrying an eticket attachment – this time from Delta. The zip file holds executable malware. In case we weren’t sure this is malware here are some of the giveaways: The

We are often asked whether we have any way of knowing how successful a particular malware or spam campaign has been. We assume that the “other side” tracks this sort of thing to see what social engineering works, and which material escapes spam and malware checks. (If any spammer is

A recent collection of malware emails borrows heavily from authentic mailings sent out by Groupon and LinkedIn. The outbreak is different from the blended attacks that have featured regularly in the last few months since it relies on attached malware as opposed to a link to drive-by malware. Using email