Spam
Cybercriminals target anyone and everyone that they think will get them a huge payoff - and there's no bigger potential payoff than high-ranking professionals in LinkedIn, the social network centered around creating connections amongst such individuals. We recently discovered a scam targeting that very same demographic.
Read moreWe recently came across mail samples that appear to be a DocuSign Notification from AT&T. It informs recipients to download and sign a supposedly document via the provided link in the email message.
Read moreWe spotted an increase in salad spam. The spam run has an email body consisting of two to three sentences of excerpts from various articles online.
Read moreOur engineers recently spotted an increase in commercial spam that used microsized salad words as a way to bypass spam filters. The spam came in different variants, advertising websites featuring different promotions, products and services (weight loss, grocery coupons, used cars, etc).
Read moreThe death of actor Robin Williams on August 12, 2014 came as a shock to people all over the world. The news of the actor's untimely death spread online like wildfire and quickly became a popular topic among netizens, including spammers and cybercriminals.
Read moreGmail users are the target of a spam attack that took advantage of several Google services. While the attack tries to pass off as a legitimate Google notification, a closer look reveals that this fake Gmail notice can lead to malware.
Read moreCybercriminals taking advantage of the popularity of certain legitimate applications is nothing new, and this spam attack that leverages Evernote's credibility and usefulness is but one of the many examples of why this is true. We found this particular sample that, while seemingly simply-written without even so much as a graphic similar to legitimate Evernote correspondence, sports malware as an attached archive.
Read moreThe month of July this 2014 marks Amelia Earhart's 117th birthday. While her disappearance still remains a mystery, spammers found a way to pique users' interest in the American aviation pioneer by using her name in spammed emails.
Read moreNews about the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy had spread like wildfire through social media sites and broadcasting networks around the world. More than the lamentable death toll, the fact that the airliner was shot down by missiles also adds to the controvery surrounding the tragedy, with parties from the Ukraine and Russia being blamed for the act.
Read moreThe recent spam attacks using the variant of ZBOT/ZEUS malware called ZBERP involve spammed messages containing links which download a zip file containing ZBERP. The mails, pretending to be notifications from UPS, contain not only links for the malware but also an attachment disguised as a PDF file.
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