March 15, 2010 - Symantec previously reported a phishing attack on the Indian Income Tax Department. Phishing emails boasting of tax refunds were sent to users in an attempt to entice citizens to enter their credentials on a bogus website. Recently, new attacks ... Read more

March 11, 2010 - In February, spammers continued to use the news of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent earthquake in Chile as another vector to utilize. Scam and phishing messages accounted for 19 percent of all spam in February, which is 2 ... Read more

March 11, 2010 - Following our blog, Zero-Day Attack on IE6 – JS.Sykipot Doesn’t Spare Retired Software, covering the recent IE Zero-day, we thought it might be interesting to look at an attack in the wild using this vulnerability and the resulting ... Read more

March 10, 2010 - Internet Explorer 6 may have taken its path to retirement but it still remains a good target for exploits, as we can see from JS.Sykipot. This zero-day was found on March 8th and it exploits a vulnerability in some ... Read more

March 10, 2010 - Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services In the past few days we have noticed that the Rustock botnet has been sending a lot more spam using TLS (Transport Layer Security). TLS is the successor to ... Read more

March 9, 2010 - Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly quiet month—the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total of eight vulnerabilities. All of the issues are rated “Important” this month: seven affecting Office/Excel ... Read more

March 5, 2010 - We recently received a file (from CERT) for analysis. We found that the file was a Trojan that opens a back door on a compromised computer and listens for commands on port 7777. This by itself is not very unusual, ... Read more

March 4, 2010 - Recently, Symantec received some malicious files which appeared to be signed by “Adobe Systems Incorporated”. On closer inspection, however, it was seen that the signature was just a ruse used by the malware author to give an air of legitimacy ... Read more

March 3, 2010 - “Big Brother Brazil” is a Brazilian reality TV program adapted from the popular Big Brother television series. The show is about a group of people living together in a purpose-built Big Brother house, isolated from the outside world, while being ... Read more

March 3, 2010 - Symantec has been observing several spam and phishing attacks regarding the recent Valentine’s Day. One such phishing attack was on an e-card website that asked for user credentials in order to send Valentine’s Day greetings to loved ones. The legitimate ... Read more

March 2, 2010 - In October 2009 we started tracking the Mariposa, or Butterfly, botnet. At that time, a security company had reported that a large number of Fortune 100 companies had been infected with this threat. Earlier today, news came out ... Read more

March 2, 2010 - According to Symantec’s latest State of Spam and Phishing report, scam and phishing messages accounted for 21 percent of all spam, which is the highest level recorded since the inception of the report. For comparison, these types of spam ... Read more

March 2, 2010 - The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, Canada, from February 12-28. With more than 82 countries participating and millions across the globe catching day-to-day action, it was sadly quite obvious that we would see spam attacks centered on this ... Read more

March 1, 2010 - The biggest news flashes for the last 48 hours involve reports of the devastating earthquake that struck near the coast of Chile, along with the tsunami threat to the Pacific region. As the extent of the damage due to the ... Read more

March 1, 2010 - By Yuriko Kako-Batt, Anti-spam Analyst, Symantec Hosted Services   Spam is one of the biggest problems for all of people who are using email. And what we imagine when we think of the word of “spam” can be different for all ... Read more

February 27, 2010 - A massive earthquake struck near the Chilean city of Concepcion in the early hours of the morning of February 27th, 2010. The quake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale was considerably stronger than the one that recently caused ... Read more

February 26, 2010 - In February, Russia celebrates one of the most important “man” holidays of the whole year: "The Day of the Defender of the Motherland." On this day, all Russian men and boys are congratulated. The holiday refers to the heroes of ... Read more

February 26, 2010 - It’s been ten years already; can you believe it? I’m talking about the U.S. Census. It’s been ten years since the last one. Time to do it again. No, it wasn’t on my calendar either. To remind all of us ... Read more

February 26, 2010 - Imagine that you’re sitting at home catching up on your email backlog. In comes an email from your ISP, FooBarBazCo (some creativity required here, I know). The email seems to be from Technical Support  – ‘From:    FooBarBazCo.com Team’ – and ... Read more

February 25, 2010 - How many social network accounts do you have? How much time do you spend on your network content and application updates? How many discussion boards or blogs or pictures or games do you need to maintain in each network service? ... Read more