Pharmacy Spam: Pharmaceutical Websites Fall into Two Distinct Operations
By Yuriko Kako-Batt, Anti-spam Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Spam is one of the biggest problems for all of people who are using email. And what we imagine when we think of the word of “spam” can b ...
8.20 lunedì 1 marzo 2010
Targeted Attack Spoofs NYTimes.com and the Times Reader for Windows 2.0 Software
Posted on behalf of Tony Millington, Malware Operations Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services MessageLabs Intelligence tracked a new targeted attack yesterday using emails pretending to be from the New York Times sending ou ...
9.31 giovedì 25 febbraio 2010
New Brazilian Banking Trojans Alert
By Manoj Venugopalan, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Brazil is the biggest country in Latin America with a population of over 198.7m people, 34% of whom are connected to the internet. It is also a country wit ...
6.53 martedì 23 febbraio 2010
DDoS Attacks Ten Years On
By Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Ten years ago, on 14 February 2000, DDoS or distributed denial-of-service attacks – which attempt to cause disruption to an online se ...
11.24 lunedì 22 febbraio 2010
Targeted Attacks Now Using Bredolab Malware
Posted on behalf of Tony Millington (Malware Operations Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services), with contributions from Dan Bleaken (Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services) Today we saw a targeted attack ...
8.10 mercoledì 17 febbraio 2010
Five Years On - Evolving Social Media Threats and Instant Messaging Spam
Tuesday 16th February marks the five year anniversary of the first US arrest for SpIM. In 2005 New York teenager Anthony Greco was arrested and charged with sending more than 1.5 million pieces of ’SpIM’ (spa ...
9.49 martedì 16 febbraio 2010
Valentine Heart Healer or Password Stealer
Posted on behalf of Bhaskar Krishnappa, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Animated heart shaped cards are common during the Valentine season to heal the restless hearts and it’s not a hidden fact that malw ...
13.25 giovedì 11 febbraio 2010
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 giovedì 21 gennaio 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 mercoledì 20 gennaio 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 venerdì 15 gennaio 2010