Spam and Phishing

The percentage of spam in mail traffic is still on the rise. In the first quarter this year, spam represented an average of 88% of all mail traffic

Our annual report on malware evolution in 2007, published a few months ago, contained forecasts on how the threat landscape would evolve in 2008

Spam in mail traffic averaged 90.7% in March 2008. A low of 83.5% was recorded on 27 March, while a high of 97.8% occurred on 1 March.

The Race to Zero is not a questionable affair – no questions about it…it is unethical.

We recently got back from Panama, where we took part in a conference on cyber crime in Latin America

I love numbers…

It is more than 20 years since the first PC virus appeared. Since then, the nature of threats has changed significantly

Last night, on the eve of April Fool’s Day, we started seeing a wave of new modifications of the notorious Zhelatin worm.

Besides phishing messages, another widespread form of fraud in February were fake notifications of lottery wins and offers of free gifts.

Brazilian spam leads victims to spoofed URL on a hacked page on a legitimate website.

Online surveillance still under discussion

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