Microsoft and Trend Micro Logos Used in Spam

Please be wary of e-mail messages supposed to be coming from Microsoft and using the Trend Micro logo in an attempt to look legitimate. The following sample spammed message, which seems to be targeting Latin American users, leads users to malware:

Figure 1. Sample spam. The message roughly translates to: Hello Sir, it was [...]

Phishers as street-level drug dealers

The Microsoft report on the profitability of phishing and its associated economic constraints is reminiscent of another illegal enterprise: street-level drug dealing.

Microsoft released a report stating that phishing is no where near as profitable as commonly believed. If you have not read the report or Dancho’s review of the paper, I suggest you [...]