18 May 2012 |
Today sees the highly-anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offering) of the social-networking site Facebook. The IPO is expected to be several times oversubscribed as the demand for shares greatly exceeds the number of shares being issued.
18 May 2012 |
Today sees the highly-anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offering) of the social-networking site Facebook. The IPO is expected to be several times oversubscribed as the demand for shares greatly exceeds the number of shares being issued.
18 May 2012 |
Today sees the highly-anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offering) of the social-networking site Facebook. The IPO is expected to be several times oversubscribed as the demand for shares greatly exceeds the number of shares being issued.
23 Mar 2012 |
Fake antivirus software or "scareware" is nothing new, but these applications continue to get more sophisticated. We recently discovered a relatively new fake antivirus application called Windows Risk Minimizer.
08 Mar 2012 |
Recently we noticed spammers abusing Dropbox, a popular cloud-based, file-hosting and synchronization tool, to spread spam.
07 Mar 2012 |
Recently we noticed spammers abusing Dropbox, a popular cloud-based, file-hosting and synchronization tool, to spread spam.
25 Jan 2012 |
Beginning on New Year's Eve, January 1, 2012 and continuing earlier into the days following, Symantec Intelligence identified spammers taking advantage of the New Year anniversary, seemingly to entice users into clicking on spam links contained in the email messages.
27 Sep 2011 |
In the Symantec Intelligence blog we've covered how spammers like to conceal their actual spam sites through elaborate chains of redirects, often involving hacked or compromised sites, URL shortening sites, obfuscation techniques, or combinations of all of these.
08 Sep 2011 |
As we've covered extensively on the Symantec Intelligence blog in the past, 419 or advance fee fraud scammers are highly skilled at using current events to their advantage. Recently we have seen scams taking advantage of unrest in Libya, the devastating March 2011 earthquake in Japan, and other events.
05 Sep 2011 |
In February this year the Symantec Intelligence Blog covered how 419 or advance fee fraud scammers were using the unrest in Libya to their advantage. As we've extensively covered in the past on the blog, 419 scammers are skilled at using current events to their advantage.