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 ...
With contributions from Manoj Venugopalan, Senior Malware Analyst, Symantec
Introduction
A new day and a new zero day PDF exploit used in a Targeted attack which our Skeptic heuristic engine stopped. This one exploits a vulnerability in ...
Global spam is now at the lowest it has been since November 2008, when the rogue ISP McColo was closed-down. The effect on spam volumes back then were very dramatic and spam accounted for 68.0% of global emails. More recently the decline has been much ...
A wise man once said, “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.” (Machiavelli). Thus, looking back at the major cyber security trends of 2011 helps us gain perspective on what we ...
Recently ProofPoint posted a blog with a chart detailing some of the differences between Symantec.cloud (formerly MessageLabs) and ProofPoint technologies. Several of the side-by-side comparisons are inaccurate, so we are posting this blog to address ...
Do you know which of these Instant Messaging (IM) scenarios could put a company at risk and which are harmless? Have you (or someone you know) ever…
Sent a file over IM to a coworker who needed it ASAP?
Clicked on a link sent in IM by a ...
In the last week or so, erroneous statements about Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud have popped up on a few social media sites. The statements claim that Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud is not a “true” cloud solution and is merely an example of the ...
It’s no secret that the proliferation of mobile devices in the workplace has added to the ongoing struggle between employees who want to use their mobile devices to access corporate data and the IT departments working to secure and control all of their ...
Some of the newest printers have scan-to-email ability, a feature that allows users to email scanned documents to a specified email address on demand. Symantec Intelligence has identified malware authors using social engineering tactics that take ...
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 ...