Spam
We recently found a sample of a spam campaign that appears to use the mask of certain animal nutrtition companies. The email poses to be an invoice from Cargill and attempts to infect users with a document with malicious macro included.
Read moreWe recently came across samples of a spam campaign, this time using the disguise of a credentialing invoice advertising medical services - specifically, those pertaining to anesthesia. The body of the message is short and directs the reader to its attachment - a Microsoft Word document that may look harmless at first glance but is actually malicious.
Read moreSpammers are leveraging the US Department of Treasury for its social engineering tactics. The email sample appears to be a notification from the Federal Reserve Bank regarding restrictions on wire transfers.
Read moreOur engineers recently came across samples of a spammed mail purpotedly coming from someone in the National Disability Insurance Scheme department of the Australian government. It sports the subject 'NDISPlan' and notifies the user that they have a secure file waiting to be downloaded and it appears to involve the insurance plan of an individual named 'Shelby'.
Read moreTrend Micro engineers came across spam mail which appear to be non-delivery reports or undelivered mail notice from mx.google.
Read moreSpammed messages purporting to contain a cheaters list are making rounds following the hacking of the Ashley Madison website. These spammed messages disguise itself to be from instantconfirm background checks, Fox News, or CNBS.
Read moreWindows 10 has just been released and with all highly-anticipated product releases, cybercriminals are already taking advantage of the hype. Recently our engineers here at Trendlabs spotted a spam mail making the rounds, one pretending to be an email notification for a free update of Microsoft's latest OS.
Read moreThe much-awaited 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup and the news on Sepp Blatters’ resignation spurred spam emails that can bypass antispam filters. The excerpts from the news are inserted in HTML codes of the said emails.
Read moreAt the onset of June, news about the MERS disease began spreading around the globe. And just like in the past, cybercriminals and spammers are quick to leverage such notable news to proliferate their malicious activities.
Read moreRumors are circulating that the public version of iOS 8.4 is about to be released to the general public in the next few weeks, though Apple has kept mum about the exact date.
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