Spam and Phishing

The long and eagerly awaited closed beta run of Diablo 3 has finally begun and Blizzard has sent out the first set of invitations to registered gamers all over the world.

After having handled thousands and thousands of phishing emails/webpages, they usually don’t actually reach me in any way or form. They are processed and added to our detection list in what is now a merely routine task. But recently I got a mail which was different because it appeared to be sent from my bank.

One of the main rules of IT security is to be very cautious when dealing with archived attachments in emails.

Today we came across a new, very sophisticated type of phishing.

After the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock botnets were taken offline, the geography of spam sources underwent some major changes.

Arbor Networks reseracher Jose Nazario talks about new DDoS bot families, most previously unidentified. Nazario provides a tour of recently discovered DDoS bots from around the world showing the proliferation of attack models, adoption of .Net, and new modular functionalities.

August is traditionally one of the busiest months for the information security industry.

In their attempts to bypass e-mail filtering systems and deliver their information to users, spammers often resort to all sorts of tricks

Kaspersky Lab is paying a lot of attention to IT security education & literacy development sharing its knowledge & experience actively through its educational program “Kaspersky Academy”

Here’s the latest of our malware calendar wallpapers.

In Q2 of 2011, the share of spam in mail traffic continued to grow, averaging 82.5%.

Here’s our malware wallpaper for August, highlighting some notable malware-related events from the past.

Alexey Polyakov is a Head of the Global Emergency Response Team of Kaspersky Lab – a new security policy consultation service for current and new corporate customers. Over the last 12 months this new service has responded to numerous incidents in which corporate customers’ networks have been targeted.

Miles stolen from customers are becoming a new kind of currency among Brazilian cybercriminals and phishers, who can use them to issue tickets for themselves, sell tickets to other criminals or use them in barter schemes.

In this webcast, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, shares his extensive knowledge of the driving forces that power the modern cyber-criminal ecosystem and discuss the way that cybercrime operates.