Spam and Phishing

Last month on our Russian blog we talked about how the Zbot Trojan was being spread via spam messages which looked as though they came from the US Federal Tax authorities

Eugene discusses in brief his position regarding anonymity on the INternet and the potential benefits of epassports.

Here are some technical details to expand on the previous post from Darya.

Yesterday we saw a phishing attack targeting users of Outlook Web Access (OWA) service – used worldwide to access email from Microsoft Exchange Servers via the Internet.

How to fight corruption

Today I got a ‘Anti-virus notification message’ from our mail server
(protected by kav4lms) so naturally I was interested in what the
content was. Examining the quarantined mail on the server revealed
some interesting details starting from the mail header itself:

“X-PHP-Script:…

This article is a study of one spam email and illustrates the methods employed by today’s cyber criminals to create botnets and conduct mass spam mailings.

The amount of spam detected in mail traffic averaged 85.1% in August 2009. A low of 76.3% was recorded on 1 August with a peak value of 90.8% being reached on 16 August.

Cybercriminals are unlikely to reinvent the wheel, so once you’ve encountered a scam or threat, and have learnt, you can use this information in the future. This article therefore focuses on some typical examples, and explains how you can protect yourself.

Social networks are one of the hottest things on the Internet at the moment, so it’s not surprising that spammers and malware writers love them.

You might think if you don’t use Internet banking, you’re not going to be targeted by phishers

How much does a credit card cost?

Twitter and Adobe – what’s the difference?

The amount of spam in mail traffic averaged 85.7% in July. A low of 80.9% was recorded on 17 July, while there was a high of 90.8% on 19 July.

Spot the difference