If you were to summarize 7.2 million spam subjects from a single day into a tag cloud – what would it look like?  er… like this! As you can see the main products being pushed today are fake watches, pharmaceuticals, enhancers and …. Xerox machines?? No – those belong to

It sounds like a fun application – scanning your friends profile photos and then matching them with the celbrity that they most closely resemble. If only it actually worked…  It starts with a friend’s post: Post text (in Spanish): Descubre a que famosos se parecen tus amigos en esta divertida

Variants of this malware have appeared on Facebook in the last few months. Today’s version of the attack starts with a friend’s post that looks something like this:  The link takes clickers to a Blogspot page which has been very convincingly designed to look like a Facebook page with an

Our latest Internet Threats Trend Report is now available. The report covers Web threats, phishing, malware, and spam. The January 2012 Internet Threats Trend Report and accompanying infographic present a comprehensive analysis of scores of malicious Facebook activities during the past year. The report investigates the three stages of Facebook

If you believe the email below, the recently-resigned Italian PM has paid a large amount of money to prevent the publication of “images”. Translation:   Berlusconi has proposed 2 million to hide the images. Look at this: This photo has been viewed 8 999 times. Share this link with your friends.

What did we do before Angry Birds? (Halo, Tetris and Rubik’s cube I guess). Angry Birds has become the benchmark by which any serious operating system is now judged (“no it doesn’t support email but Angry Birds will work on it”). This sort of popularity is guaranteed to make anything

Sometimes Facebook attacks are quite easy to find – like when an American friend posts in Arabic.   The text: موقف محرج خلال البث المباشر مذيعة قناة الرياضية translates to: “An embarrassing situation during the live broadcast TV sports broadcaster” Clicking on the link leads to a Web page with an

A series of massive email outbreaks have been intercepted and analyzed by Commtouch Labs over the last several days with subjects like “Need your help!” and “I’m in trouble,” containing links that lead to malware downloads. They are being spammed around the world at rates of hundreds of thousands of

Wouldn’t it be great if an all-knowing hand would sort through your inbox, highlighting all the important messages, hiding the spam, and somehow marking newsletters and low priority email? This is the tactic employed by many free email providers starting in the last year or so. Google calls this “Priority