Spam and Phishing

Both the US and Russia are still the world’s leading sources of spam. In 2006 China came third in the rating. But in 2007 it ranked only in ninth place.

Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. This article specifically analyses malware which is distributed via email.

Today our spam traps caught a phishing email targeting Paypal users that we detect proactively as Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen.

Our Mexican email addresses started receiving messages on the 19th and 20th of February that looked like standard greeting card emails

Quite a few people have already said that we can expect to see an increase in malicious code spreading as Valentine’s Day approaches

Over the last couple of days we’ve seen spam being sent out which contains a link in it claiming to be a Paris Hilton video.

The New Year started with the emergence of new methods used to send spam.

Compared to the previous month, the overall quantity of spam declined in December, but still remained relatively high. This level of spam is typical for the end of the year and January will most likely bring a slight decrease.

This paper presents a method to automatically separate and block those networks in real time. The method uses a statistical approach exploiting the fact that computers in a botnet have to have some similarities in their behavior.

Although the malicious programs leading November’s 2007 Email Top Twenty have changed, the data once again highlights the absence of any serious epidemics in mail traffic

For more than a year now, spammers have been trying to master new ways of evading spam filters in order to deliver spam that promotes stocks (so-called ‘stock spam’ or ‘pump-and-dump’ spam).

After blogging about Dutch language spam last week, we’ve seen more of it yesterday.

Numerous attacks in the Netherlands this past week in Dutch

Our online virus scanner’s October rankings are a bit unusual. What makes them stand out from previous months is a stability that we have not seen before.

This half-year report examines changes in malware compared with to the second half of 2006.