Survey: Millions of users open spam emails, click on links

A newly released report from the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), summarizing the results of the group’s second year survey of email security practices, offers an interesting insight into the various interactions end users tend to have with spam emails.

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Shanghai Expo Spam Carries Backdoor

Trend Micro senior advanced threats researcher Paul Ferguson received a spam claiming to be from the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo, which is coordinating “Expo 2010,” (taking place in Shanghai from May to October of this year), was provided to senior threat researcher Paul Ferguson by a technology news group journalist who actually received [...]

Spammers Spoof the Apple Store

Cybercriminals—spammers, to be specific—typically hide their malicious intent behind well-known company names. Just recently, TrendLabs engineers encountered a spammed message claiming to be from the Apple Store.

The email message encouraged users to view their latest status updates and to make changes to their online Apple Store orders. This new spam run is probably [...]

Anne Curtis’ “Nip-Slip” Leads to FAKEAV

Recent news of a swimsuit mishap involving a popular Philippine TV personality, Anne Curtis, spread like wildfire when members of the press captured the said incident and circulated supposed videos over the Web. The incident happened last Sunday while the Australian-born TV host and movie actress was performing a dance number while shooting live for [...]