From Russia with (objective) spam stats

It’s not every day that I get the chance to speak with a representative from the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC). Here are the key findings from their study, and the summary points based on my conversation with RAEC’s head of PR, Dmitry Zakharov.

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Malicious Medical Ads Flood Users’ Inboxes

TrendLabs observed an increase in malicious medical advertisements spammed to users’ e-mail inboxes. Two of the samples our engineers obtained looked legitimate, even had professional-looking graphics (see Figures 1 and 2). Another was just the normal, everyday, plain-text spam (see Figure 3).

The spammed messages enticed recipients to purchase the medicines the scammers were [...]

FAKEAV with LSP Routine

Trend Micro came across a new FAKEAV variant that does not only perform the usual fake alert routine, but also downloads an additional component—a .DLL file that is inserted into the Layered Service Provider (LSP) chain. By inserting itself into the LSP chain, the said .DLL file will be loaded whenever an application uses [...]