Gumblar Botnet Ramps Up Activity
On the heels of having learned that Gumblar infected three Japanese websites late last year, MesageLabs Intelligence has tracked Gumblar’s latest activity which has been heavy over the past few days, especially on ...
13:12 donderdag 21 januari 2010
As Haiti earthquake relief efforts continue, so do the spammers, phishers and scammers
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services The Haiti earthquake happened at 21.53 GMT on Tues Jan 12. It wasn’t long before we saw something related in spam, about 24 hour ...
6:06 woensdag 20 januari 2010
MessageLabs Intelligence Tracks New Botnet
On 31 December 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence began tracking a new botnet, named 'Lethic'. At that time, it accounted for 2.5 percent of all spam. On 1 January 2010 it rose to just under 4 percent of all spam and carried ...
14:13 vrijdag 15 januari 2010
419-Style Scammers Seeking to Exploit Appeal for Donations to Support Victims of Haitian Earthquake
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services People all over the world are currently feeling a great deal of sympathy for the people of Haiti, who were recently hit by a severe earthq ...
5:05 donderdag 14 januari 2010
419-Style Scam Seeks "Muslim Brother or Sister" to Retrieve Funds from Alleged Christmas Airline Bomber
This post is made on behalf of Nicholas Johnston, Senior Anti-Spam Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services. Earlier today we saw a 419 or advance fee fraud scam claiming to be sent by Hassan Ali Abdul Mutallab, the brother of ...
4:31 donderdag 14 januari 2010
How Celebrity News Shapes the Spam Landscape
9:22 woensdag 30 december 2009
The Language of Spam: Spammers do their Homework before Spamming Specific Regions
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Globally, for the past month, spam accounts for roughly 75 percent of all email in circulation. And about 75 percent of that spam is sent fr ...
9:45 woensdag 23 december 2009
URL Filtering Trends Offer Glimpse into Employee Web Use Habits
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Symantec Hosted Web Security Service blocks millions of web requests every day to protect employees from content that is either against comp ...
14:01 maandag 21 december 2009
The Return of MP3 Spam
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services MP3 Spam Returns to Attract Recipients to Canadian Pharmacy Website I remember the excitement in the MessageLabs anti-spam team when the fi ...
9:35 donderdag 17 december 2009