Cutwail Takedown Cripples Bredolab Trojan; No Effecft on Spam Levels
Posted on behalf of Mathew Nisbet, Malware Data Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services The Cutwail botnet has been one of the most prolific spamming botnets during the last two to three years. Even before the McColo IS ...
11:45 am Friday, September 03, 2010
Unusual Phishing Scam Disguised as Fast Food Restaurant Survey Aims to Steal Financial Information
Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services MessageLabs Intelligence has recently seen an interesting variant on normal bank and other financial institution phishing. This parti ...
4:27 pm Monday, August 30, 2010
Dating scammers can be ingenious
By Yuriko Kako-Batt, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services Dating scams are a common spam email problem. Spam relating to sex or dating currently accounts for approximately 4 percent of global spam. In a ...
1:32 pm Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Scareware Haunts Airport Internet Terminals
Posted on behalf of Nick Johnston, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Hosted Services This year, people traveling by air have had to contend with disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökul ...
9:06 am Wednesday, August 25, 2010