How does spam affect your business?
68% of organizations have seen their day-to-day business operations severely disrupted or completely stopped as a result of at least one spam-related incident in the last year …
UK employees targeted with fake policy violation emails
A new cyber-crime attack has been tricking SMB employees in the UK into downloading Trojans by accusing them of violating company policy. The spam wave started to accelerate …
Beware of fake “Gmail suspicious login” warnings
Malicious emails impersonating Gmail Account Services have been spotted hitting inboxes around the world, falsely claiming that the users’ Gmail account has been logged …
State of security: malicious sites, CryptoLocker copycats, email scams
AppRiver released its mid-year Global Security Report, a detailed analysis of web and email-borne threats and malware trends tracked between January and June 2014. During the …
Spammers are always thinking up new tricks
The percentage of spam in email traffic in May averaged 69.8 per cent – 1.3 percentage points less than the previous month. May saw numerous mass mailings for schools …
Spammers increasingly targeting Montreal
AdaptiveMobile released data that shows a marked increase in SMS spam across Canada in the past six months. The higher volume of SMS spam comes on the eve of the July 1st …
There’s a new banking Trojan in town
A new piece of banking malware is being delivered via tax- and invoice-themed phishing campaigns, Danish security company CSIS is warning. Dubbed “Dyreza,” the …
Most comment spam traffic is generated by 28% of attackers
Imperva released its June Hacker Intelligence Initiative report, which presents an in-depth study of how a relatively small number of attack sources are responsible for the …
Relations between spam landscape actors can be leveraged for detection
Since late 2012, a group of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and RWTH Aachen University has been working on finding out the relations that exist between the different actors …
Dissecting April’s malicious spam
Malicious attachments in April came disguised as e-greetings and notifications about faxes. In the case of the former, alleged Easter greetings turned out to be the …
Why Google prefers numeric CAPTCHAs
Alphanumeric CAPTCHAs – those more or less difficult-to-read combinations that are used by many online services to discern whether a user is human or a bot – have …
The prime target for malicious emails
In the first quarter of 2014 spammers started imitating messages from mobile applications. They especially like the popular mobile messengers – WhatsApp, Viber and …