Spam
Windows 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.
Read moreThis spammed message comes as an empty email with a subject written in German. Similar to most spam of this nature, this spammed message pretends to be a delivery notification from DHL, a known logistics company.
Read moreROMBERTIK malware is known for its information-stealing routines via hooking itself on certain web browsers. It typically arrives as an attachment to email messages.
Read moreThe disastrous 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal last April 25 made global headlines.
Read moreAs tax season continues, so do the rise of the socially-engineered spam campaigns that take advantage of it. The latest we've found and received samples of purports itself to be a refund notification from the Australian Tax Office (ATO).
Read moreTorrentLocker takes advantage of the 2015 tax season in the ANZ region. Trend Micro researchers found a spammed message that lures users by using penalty tax in its subject.
Read moreWe recently received phishing mails that take advantage of the 2015 tax season in the United States as a social engineering lure to target unwitting users. The keywords used in the phishing email include Tax Exemption Notification in the email subject.
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