Since this is my second post on the Commtouch blog I have added a brief intro – I have been working in the antivirus industry since 2004. I’ve served as an Escalation Anti-Virus Engineer at Trend Micro, Inc., a Senior Anti-Malware Analyst at F-Secure, Inc., and currently work as a
We received this email from a friend and immediately suspected that his Yahoo account had been compromised. The subject was clearly not generated by a human and the email contained a single link with some garbled text. Following the link brought us to some exciting special price meds just in
Yes – you should give thanks for anti-spam since it would have prevented you from receiving all sorts of unwanted emails. Like these horrid marketing scams. This group of spammers needs recipients to respond before Thanksgiving in order to claim government grants. The email titles take the email address names
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
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
Commtouch recently acquired Command, the antivirus division of Authentium. We had a quick chat with Amir Lev, Commtouch CTO and president, to discuss the current state of global virus activity and the Command AV SDK. What are current malware trends? The latest trends involve combined threats – emails with an
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”.
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
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
