MessageLabs Intelligence Blog

Gumblar Botnet Ramps Up Activity

On the heels of having learned that Gumblar infected three Japanese websites late last year, MesageLabs Intelligence has tracked Gumblar’s latest activity which has been heavy over the past few days, especially on ...

13:12 2010年1月21日

As Haiti earthquake relief efforts continue, so do the spammers, phishers and scammers

Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services The Haiti earthquake happened at 21.53 GMT on Tues Jan 12.  It wasn’t long before we saw something related in spam, about 24 hour ...

6:06 2010年1月20日

MessageLabs Intelligence Tracks New Botnet

On 31 December 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence began tracking a new botnet, named 'Lethic'. At that time, it accounted for 2.5 percent of all spam. On 1 January 2010 it rose to just under 4 percent of all spam and carried ...

14:13 2010年1月15日

419-Style Scammers Seeking to Exploit Appeal for Donations to Support Victims of Haitian Earthquake

Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services People all over the world are currently feeling a great deal of sympathy for the people of Haiti, who were recently hit by a severe earthq ...

5:05 2010年1月14日

419-Style Scam Seeks "Muslim Brother or Sister" to Retrieve Funds from Alleged Christmas Airline Bomber

This post is made on behalf of Nicholas Johnston, Senior Anti-Spam Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services. Earlier today we saw a 419 or advance fee fraud scam claiming to be sent by Hassan Ali Abdul Mutallab, the brother of ...

4:31 2010年1月14日

How Celebrity News Shapes the Spam Landscape

How Celebrity News Shapes the Spam Landscape

9:22 2009年12月30日

The Language of Spam: Spammers do their Homework before Spamming Specific Regions

Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Globally, for the past month, spam accounts for roughly 75 percent of all email in circulation. And about 75 percent of that spam is sent fr ...

9:45 2009年12月23日

The Language of Spam: Spammers do their Homework before Spamming Specific Regions

Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Globally, for the past month, spam accounts for roughly 75 percent of all email in circulation. And about 75 percent of that spam is sent fr ...

9:45 2009年12月23日

URL Filtering Trends Offer Glimpse into Employee Web Use Habits

Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Symantec Hosted Web Security Service blocks millions of web requests every day to protect employees from content that is either against comp ...

14:01 2009年12月21日

The Return of MP3 Spam

Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services MP3 Spam Returns to Attract Recipients to Canadian Pharmacy Website I remember the excitement in the MessageLabs anti-spam team when the fi ...

9:35 2009年12月17日