“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” Former US Secretary of Defense Donald

Heute hat Commtouch (führender Anbieter von Internetsicherheitstechnologien und Cloud-basierten Services) Email Security für SaaS vorgestellt: der neue Service ermöglicht es Security-Anbietern und Service Providern, schnell und kostengünstig mit einer Private-Label-Lösung vom Wachstumsmarkt Security as a Service zu profitieren. Bei Commtouch Email Security SaaS handelt es sich um eine hochleistungsfähige Cloud-basierte

Unerwünscht und ärgerlich – zwei Adjektive, die beim Thema Spam jedem einfallen. Unerwünschte Werbung in Massen im Postfach der E-Mail Nutzer, davor schützt inzwischen ein Spam-Filter. Was jedoch tun, wenn Themen beworben werden, mit denen man gar nichts zu tun hat? So geschehen ist es der Website proberry.de. Seit Mittwoch

Gestern kam eine E-Mail von “Norbert” – mit folgender Betreffzeile: “Alter Falter, das glaubt auch keiner der es nicht gesehen hat…”. Er hat sein Ziel erreicht, ich kann meine Neugierde kaum bändigen. Schon nach der kurzen Begrüßung (“Hallo”), wird schnell klar, dass er mir mit äußerster Vehemenz und Dringlichkeit ein

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