Posted on behalf of Greg Leah, Dan Bleaken, Seth Hardy, Jo Hurcombe & Tony Millington
Symantec Hosted Services analysts spotted a blocked targeted attack yesterday that uses the FIFA World Cup 2010 to encourage the recipient to open a ...
Who wouldn’t want some tax benefits in the current economic times? Don’t phishers and scammers know that all too well! In a new phishing scheme, Symantec has found that Child Tax Credit is being used as bait to lure parents to disclose their financial ...
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst and Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services
This week MessageLabs Intelligence noticed some eye-catching artwork from spammers.
‘ASCII art’ is the use of ...
One can be both impressed and amused at how far image spammers will go in distorting their image payloads in an attempt to slip through spam filtering technologies. If the spammer somehow manages to slip spam through spam filters from time to time, it ...
Most of us are uncomfortable with the word "risk." The word "security" is better because it sounds more positive. The reality is that security can only be achieved through reduction of risk. So, we need to discipline ourselves to ...
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services
Normally in the run-up to any popular event we would expect to see a flurry of spam subjects and themes using that event. It happens all the time around events ...
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services
There is a huge variety in the types of spam that are sent all over the internet, but there are patterns to be found in the chaos.
One way to see ...
In February, spammers continued to use the news of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent earthquake in Chile as another vector to utilize. Scam and phishing messages accounted for 19 percent of all spam in February, which is 2 percentage points lower ...
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services
In the past few days we have noticed that the Rustock botnet has been sending a lot more spam using TLS (Transport Layer Security). TLS is the successor to SSL and is a ...
I always find the report has very good information to summerise the spam activities for the previous month. I use it as a main source for our monthly reporting. According the main site it states this report will release in the first week of each month ...