Insights on Data Security & Threat Intelligence
Spammers are an enterprising lot – registering domains that will be useful if there is ever a natural disaster such an earthquake or tsunami. Consider the domain “oceanictsunamialerts.info” registered on the 13th of December 2010. Following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami on Friday, the domain is now being used in
Consider for a moment the stages involved in a traditional phishing attack: Create the phishing page – either buried within a legitimate site or hosted on some temporary server Send out carefully socially engineered phishing emails requiring login for some reason – including the link to the phishing page Collect
Almost a year ago Commtouch released its Outbound Spam Protection (OSP) for Service Providers. Since then, I have been involved in numerous installations of the system and I would like to share my experience so far. If you asked me to describe it in just 2 words, I would say
Like any good scammer, spammers are always looking for ways around the system, knowing that their spam will be blocked if it contains the real URL they are trying to promote (in this case “russian-babes.ru”). In this example, they are using a workaround to fight both real-time anti-spam protection and
In January we reported about the sudden increase in spam after a very quiet Christmas New year period. The Christmas lull followed a sustained decrease over the last few months of 2010 leading some to speculate about the future of spam and having “won the war”. Having watched the trends
While our solutions filter out spam before they ever reach mailboxes, we are always on the lookout for how social engineering inspires innocent victims to take action. We were actually intrigued by this slick combination of spam and scam. As you can see from this image, the spam itself is
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Search engine redirection is usually one of the side effects of malicious software. This problem remains even after Trojans or fake antivirus are removed from the infected system. No matter what site they search for, users experience a redirection of search results and web pages to affiliated websites. In the
No surprise here – Valentine’s Day spam is being widely distributed. Commtouch labs have been receiving valentine’s themed spam since January – some of the subjects used: happy st valentine?€™s with mydatelab.com! happy st valentine?€™s with myseduction.com! cgjn, valentine day sale now on gctoyota, the best valentines gifts geyr, valentine
