Cutwail Takedown Cripples Bredolab Trojan; No Effecft on Spam Levels
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services The Cutwail botnet has been one of the most prolific spamming botnets during the last two to three years. Even before the McColo IS ...
11:45 2010年9月3日
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 2010年8月30日
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 2010年8月25日
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 2010年8月25日
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 2010年8月23日
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 2010年8月16日
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 2010年8月10日
MessageLabs Intelligence Finds Dramatic Increase in requests for Streaming Media during World Cup
Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Senior Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Your company’s internet link is precious. Not only is it expensive and limited but it is a vital business tool. Yet recent Mes ...
11:09 2010年8月4日
Wordle: Words Used by Major Spam Sending Botnets
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services In the past, MessageLabs Intelligence did some analysis on the words used by the major spam botnets which showed a marked differenc ...
9:29 2010年7月30日
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 ...
9:00 2010年7月15日