In addition to the much publicized use of Facebook and Twitter to organize protests, supporters of change in Egypt have also been using good old email to spread the word. The emails appear to be spreading using the traditional “forward this to all your contacts”. The subjects include: Stand with

The attack starts with a spoofed email which claims to be from the Ministry of Finance in Turkey (FROM: “MALIYE BAKANLIGI”<bilgi@maliye.gov.tr>). Below is the translated email (courtesy of Google translate):  The RAR archive attachment which seems to include the list of cars for sale, actually contains a file with a

APNIC announced today that they have been allocated the final allocation made by IANA of IPv4 /8 blocks under the current framework. Come again?? Translation:  IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) allocate blocks of IPv4 addresses to five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) – these are shown on the map below. These

Facebook chat messages containing malicious links are being sent from compromised Facebook accounts. The messages are typically sent to all of the compromised user’s friends.  The distribution of the malware includes the following steps Legitimate website is hacked A new folder is created on the hacked site including malware (an

Attention, After proper and several investigations and research at Western Union and MoneyGram Office, we found your name in Western Union database amongst those that have sent money through Western Union to Nigeria and this proves that you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to

Partner Cyberoam* brought this one to our attention. The kamasutra virus is being transferred in the form of a downloadable PPT/PPS file link. When the “presentation” (actually an exe file) is opened, users are treated to “illustrated” Kama Sutra positions. In the background the malicious code installation is started along

While Commtouch technology automatically blocks billions of spam and phishing messages from ever reaching customers anywhere in the world, Commtouch staff review samples of the messages to analyze the way social engineering is being used within different cultures. In this recent attack focused on Brazil, credit card customers weren’t threatened

After one of the quietest spam periods in Commtouch recorded history, spammers are clearly back at work. The quiet period neatly matches the Christmas-New Year holiday season but also seems to add the Russian New Year and Russian Orthodox Christmas (Friday 7th of January). Outbreaks resumed on the 9th. The

In October we reported an 18% drop in global spam levels (comparing September and October). This was largely attributed to the closure of Spamit around the end of September. Spamit is the organization allegedly behind a fair percentage of the worlds pharmacy spam. According to reports in October, the reasons

Commtouch’s friends and family aren’t immune to receiving suspect messages. The Commtouch team was recently asked to check out an email that a friend had received. The email offered her a job for which she did not apply.  So what’s the position? – Payment Processing Agent – to help secure