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Pacquiao-Margarito Fight KOs users with Fake AV

November 13, 2011, Saturday – The world will once again witness two of world boxing’s greatest fighters trading punches in the ring to see who’s the toughest and who will be win the WBC Super Welterweight World Title. For those of you who are not boxing aficionados, more info about

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Using unicode to trick users to install malware

Our partner Openfind Information Technology, Inc., providing message communication, security and assurance solutions and based in Taiwan, have detected increased use of a new technique used to trick users into opening malware executables. The files are distributed via email (compressed). The emails includes standard “you have received an important document

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Sillyspam Websites

First there was Sillyspam (search Twitter for #sillyspam) – where we tweet about amusing spam topics and content that we have seen. Then we added “Silly 419” – describing some of the more outlandish attempted fraud emails that we pick up in our labs. And now we add “Sillyspam Websites”.

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Spamit closure – 18% drop in global spam levels

Spamit is the organization allegedly behind a fair percentage of the worlds pharmacy spam. The closure of Spamit was reported to have taken place around the 27th of September. According to more recent reports the reasons for the sudden “voluntary” closure are related to charges brought against the individuals behind

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The Virus Bulletin 2010 conference

This is my first blog posting as part of the Commtouch team so it is probably a good idea to introduce myself. My name is Robert Sandilands, I have been involved in the antivirus industry from 1995 and I came to Commtouch through their recently completed acquisition of the antivirus

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Solidarity with German pharmacy spam

Commtouch recently exhibited at the 8th German Anti-Spam Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany. The Summit is organized by ECO – the Association of the German Internet Industry. Commtouch is a long-term partner of many leading German service providers and security vendors including 1&1, Intergenia and Astaro.  One of the often-discussed points

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