Spam

As news about the Ebola pandemic flooded the Internet, cybercriminals and have seized the opportunity to use the popularity of the topic as bait to lure unsuspecting victims to pages that could be used to steal their information and credentials.

A look at the scope and scale of the threats that can be found on Twitter, including tweets that point to malicious URLs, phishing attacks.

A case of spammers looking for legitimate ways to send spam. Our research shows an IP provider in Canada and several US-registered domains were found to be sending salad words spam.

Scrutinize that Google Drive or Dropbox link before clicking. Spam could be used to distribute backdoors; in this case, the message includes a link that points to a Google Drive URL.

The growth in spam volume during the first of half of 2014 can be attributed to the prevalence of threats that use spam as an infection vector. This include known threats like DOWNAD, UPATRE, and ZEUS/ZBOT.

The iPhone 6 September release became the subject of spammed messages that is actually a scam.