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It’s been over a month since we wrote about fake Twitter email messages, and if it worked once for scammers/spammers, they’ll certainly try it again. Commtouch labs is seeing large quantities of – you guessed it – fake Twitter email messages, similar to the one here:  How can the uninitiated

Statistics related to spam levels feature prominently in this Internet Threats Trend Report, as they did in the report about the fourth quarter of 2010. This is due to the wide variations observed during the first three months of 2011, and the takedown of the Rustock botnet – which we

Many of us suffer from email overload, even without including the seemingly hundreds of newsletters to which we voluntarily subscribe. Sometimes, we must step in and say “Enough” and unsubscribe from the emails that no longer provide as much value as we’d hoped in the beginning. The Really Good  Clear,

Update April 17, 2011: Based on some feedback received offline, I would like to clarify: inetbrowse is a proxy, available on the Google App Engine. In other words, anything can be proxied through it. I did not mean to imply that Google was knowingly hosting a phishing site. The intention

Malicious Adobe Flash files are making the rounds of some lucky individuals that have been targeted for spearphishing, according to news reports. Adobe has confirmed that the vulnerability exists in its Flash program, and that the infected files have been distributed (so far) embedded in a Microsoft Word document sent

We recently received an email supposedly from Puremobile – a supplier of unlocked cellphones. Similar emails were also received with “order info” from Bobijou (a costume jewelry designer). The “order confirmation” included a PDF file as shown below.  Our initial analysis of the file found no Javascript. No JavaScript? This

Should I feel left out? I didn’t receive an apology letter from my bank, broker or grocery store this week. In case you are wondering what they should be apologizing about – besides the weak dollar or the price of tomatoes — the online marketer Epsilon was breached this week

For the 3rd day running we are seeing vast quantities of email-attached malware. Today the spoofed sender was DHL with subjects like “DHL Express Service”. The emails included standard test such as:  Dear customer. The parcel was sent your home address. And it will arrive within 3 business day. More

Virus distributors have steadily decreased their usage of email as a means of malware distribution. The more popular methods nowadays include the use of drive-by downloads as well as “voluntary” downloads of “shockwave updaters” and “movie codec files”. But the last day or so has seen very high levels of