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2010 in Review: Same Old Spammers

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:12:27 +0000

2010 has been an active year both for spammers and anti-spammers alike. No new spamming techniques or tricks were used in 2010. However, the spammers kept the spam threat alive and kicking by recycling old tricks and combining popular spamming techniques seen in the past. Here are some of the notable spam types and [...]

How Spammers Hide Behind Multiple Web Layers

admin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:09:59 +0000

Today, I received a spammed message that made it through my spam filters, thanks to a few clever tricks. Right off the bat, the message was only a short sentence with a shortened link. The sentence was written in Spanish so anti-spam filters might have had a harder time with it. That was the [...]

.RTF File Conceals Spam

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:05:21 +0000

A few days ago, TrendLabsSM engineers received spam containing salad words (see Figure 1) along with a .ZIP file attachment (see Figure 2). This mixture of random words can be seen in the subject header and in the spam body. This was purposely done by spammers to bypass anti-spam filters that users may already [...]

Spam Quarantine Notification = Spam

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:03:44 +0000

Spammers are clearly becoming more and more creative as they try new ways to bypass our anti-spam filters. Just recently, we received a spammed message disguised as a spam quarantine notification message from a competitor.

To the untrained eye, the email looks quite convincing. However, closer inspection of the message properties reveals that while the [...]

Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:10:28 +0000

A recently conducted ethical phishing (New study details the dynamics of successful phishing) experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns are capable of bypassing anti-spam filters, and once [...]

419 scammers using Dilbert.com

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:07:42 +0000

Scammers too, know Dilbert. On their way to search for clean IPs through which to send out yet another scam email, 419 con-artists (Mrs Sharon Goetz Massey) have recently started using Dilbert.com’s recommendation feature in an attempt to bypass anti-spam filters — and it works. The use of Dilbert.com’s clean IP reputation comes a month [...]

419 scammers using NYTimes.com ‘email this feature’

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:06:32 +0000

What do Burkina Faso and the New York Times have in common? As of recently, a peak of 419 scams promising you the Moon and asking you for advance-fees via emails sent through the NYTimes.com’s ‘email this feature’ in order to successfully bypass anti-spam filters. The tactic applied by 419 con artists aiming to abuse [...]

Fake Anti-Spam Filter Leads to Keylogger

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:05:12 +0000

Spam mails are very annoying, so we turn to spam filters to avoid ending up with an inbox flooded with them. Unfortunately one “anti-spam filter” we’ve encountered isn’t driving junk out, but letting them in. We have received an email message claiming that it is from Webmail Support. It is posing as a security announcement [...]

McAfee sees shared intelligence as part of enhanced security

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:04:05 +0000

April 22nd, 2009 Posted by Sam Diaz @ 5:20 pmCategories:RSA, SecurityTags:McAfee Inc., Database, Malware, Anti-spam Software, Anti-virus Software, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And WormsIf we really want to tackle security issues, we need to rethink how we analyze the attacks and how we deal with the open holes that make us [...]

Giveaway: FREE Paid Version of ESET Smart Security Suite

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:03:45 +0000

This is the first major giveaway at Life Rocks 2.0 and we are giving 6 FREE copies of Paid Version of ESET Smart Security Suite absolutely free of cost. ESET NOD32 does not require any introduction and it is one of the best anti-virus for Windows. ESET Smart Security combines ESET NOD32, Anti Spyware, Anti-spam [...]