MessageLabs Intelligence research on spam in Germany, the UK, Denmark, the US, Canada and Australia
We've taken a closer look at spam on a regional/city basis in six large markets for July 2010. Just as we see differences in spam rates between countries we often see significant differences within countries: T ...
09:00 15. juli 2010
CAPTCHAs – breaking into the shadow economy
Posted on behalf of Jason Zhang, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services For many years, CAPTCHAs have proven very useful for many reputable, Web-based email and application service providers, including social ...
03:45 15. juli 2010
New 419 Scams Use Current Events to Draw Interest
Posted on behalf of Nicholas Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Anti-Spam Team Symantec Hosted Services Last year, details emerged of an investigation around 50,000 US citizens suspected of hiding large sums of money ...
11:01 14. juli 2010
Risks from web threats mount up in 2010
Posted on behalf of Matt Charman, Marketing Manager No-one can deny the phenomenal success of the World Wide Web. But its increasing prominence and importance come at a price. Quite apart from the big risks that business ...
08:34 8. juli 2010
New Phishing Attack Guised as Fake PDF Reader Update
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst and Jo Hurcombe, AV Operations Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services On the June 18, MessageLabs Intelligence spotted a new malicious email attack, using PDFs as a hoo ...
09:23 7. juli 2010
Multi-Step Targeted Attack
Posted on behalf of Martin Lee, Senior Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services This sophisticated attack was recently intercepted by MessageLabs Intelligence. One particularly interesting feature was the degree of pre ...
09:04 30. juni 2010
Long lost pharmacy brands return, and a new one appears
MessageLabs Intelligence has been monitoring the activities of two pharmaceutical spam gangs: Gang1 and Gang2. These are the two biggest pharmaceutical gangs which are sending spam all over the world as mentioned in the ...
09:58 29. juni 2010
FIFA World Cup Scams Continue to Circulate
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Senior Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services As reported in the June MessageLabs Intelligence Report, MessageLabs Intelligence is seeing a great variety of different threats relating ...
13:22 23. juni 2010
Use of legitimate sites in malicious web attacks
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Senior Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services The MessageLabs Hosted Web Security Service (WSS) blocks millions of web requests every day to protect users from content that is eit ...
14:35 17. juni 2010