Unusual Phishing Scam Disguised as Fast Food Restaurant Survey Aims to Steal Financial Information
Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services MessageLabs Intelligence has recently seen an interesting variant on normal bank and other financial institution phishing. This parti ...
16.27 lunedì 30 agosto 2010
Dating scammers can be ingenious
By Yuriko Kako-Batt, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Dating scams are a common spam email problem. Spam relating to sex or dating currently accounts for approximately 4 percent of global spam. In a ...
13.32 mercoledì 25 agosto 2010
Scareware Haunts Airport Internet Terminals
Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services This year, people traveling by air have had to contend with disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökul ...
9.06 mercoledì 25 agosto 2010
August Botnet Distribution
In the August 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence report (available here on Tuesday) we present our analysis of the top botnets globally. An analysis of individual bot IP addresses allows mapping of the physical location of bo ...
23.03 lunedì 23 agosto 2010
Image Spam
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Service The use of images in spam is well known, and has been going on for as long as it has been possible to send images in email messages. There ...
9.48 lunedì 16 agosto 2010
Personalized Spam
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst Spammers use many tactics to add legitimacy to their emails. One technique used is the personalization of their spam, where the spammer will add text to the email ...
8.18 martedì 10 agosto 2010