Archive for November, 2009

Christmas Spam Spotted

November 2, 2009 - With Christmas just right around the corner, spammers are already flooding users’ inboxes with unwanted email. No surprises there. Spammers are known to exploit the holidays to further their malicious causes. Just recently, Trend Micro threat analysts found another spammed message that claimed (continue reading...) Read more

Rogue AV Haunts Halloween

November 1, 2009 - Festive search words are a favorite with scammers as a lure to their offerings, as my colleague David Marcus recently warned us about Halloween-themed threats. In recent research, we have found that search results for “scary halloween pumpkin designs” could (continue reading...) Read more

Mariposa: How Exposed Are We?

November 1, 2009 - The Application and Threat Research Team has done a great job of provide insight into what the Mariposa threat as well as how to quickly analyze their networks to see if Mariposa is present via the WireShark plugin. Based on (continue reading...) Read more

Cassandra Firing GnuPG Blanks

November 1, 2009 - A routine software update (a minor revision number) caused a serious problem. A number of blank messages were sent until we realized that attempts to sign messages with GnuPG from PHP resulted in empty strings. If you received (continue reading...) Read more

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