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Breaking Down Blog Spam Malware

Jesper Johansson, co-author of Windows Vista Security: Securing Vista Against Malicious Attacks, recently wrote an article in The Register which dissects a new type of threat. Anyone with a blog has probably seen blog spam- comments made on blog posts which have little or nothing to do with the actual blog post, but contain links to spam-related web sites. I have spam filters in place, so I rarely even see the blog spam posts. They are an annoyance, and I simply delete them in periodic batches. However, Jesper did stop to look at the spam and noticed that a new breed was becoming prevalent. The new breed, rather than just leading to some annoying spam site, are actually malware attacks. For a complete breakdown of the threat, and Jesper's dissection and analysis, check out Anatomy of a Malware Scam.

When is spam not really "spam?"

Everyone knows spam when they see it, but what is spam? The most widely accepted definition comes from Spamhaus, an international nonprofit organization that tracks spam. They define spam as "unsolicited bulk email."

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google who today revealed some surprising new spam figures.

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures.

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures.

Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks

MojoKid writes "A recent study (PDF) by Richard Clayton at Cambridge University determined that the first letter of a someone's email address directly affects how much spam they receive. As shown in the graph at either link above, email addresses with numbers as their first characters receive even fewer spam emails. The corpus used in the study was 8 weeks' worth of email from the UK ISP Demon Internet, just over half a billion messages, of which 56% was deemed to be spam."

Where Has All My Spam Gone?

An anonymous reader writes "I have my own domain, which has its own email server, where I receive all my personal email. I've been getting about 800 emails a day, of which perhaps 20 are real. Suddenly, Sunday or Monday evening, the spam pretty much stopped. My volume of mail has plummeted to less than 100 a day, and as far as I can tell, I'm not missing any real mail — I'm still getting the email list subscriptions I'm expecting, and every time I ask someone to send me a test message, it gets through. My domain host insists that it doesn't do any spam filtering before mail gets to my inbox, and that they've changed nothing about their configuration. I run SpamAssassin on my server to mark, but not delete, spam, and download the whole mess to my home client, and I'm still seeing the occasional message tagged by SpamAssassin.

Trend Micro: India is highest-spamming nation in Asia

India is the 7th largest spam sender in the world, according to Trend Micro Incorporated, a company dealing with Internet content security (also the makers of Trend Antivirus and other security software). India is the leader among Asian countries in spam, accounting for more than 4% of the total global spam. It is ahead of other Asian countries such as China (3.39%), Republic of Korea (2.57%) and Thailand (2.04%). Asia contributes 16.57% of the global spam volume.

India is the Number One Spamming Nation in Asia

According to Trend Micro, India is the seventh largest spam sender in the world. It is the leader among Asian countries in spam, accounting for more than 4 percent of the total global spam. It is ahead of other Asian countries such as China (3.39 percent), Republic of Korea (2.57 percent) and Thailand (2.04 percent). Asia contributes 16.57 percent of the global spam volume.

India No. 1 spamming nation in Asia

BANGALORE, INDIA: India is the 7th largest spam sender in the world, according to Trend Micro Inc., a global leader in Internet content security. India is the leader among Asian countries in spam, accounting for more than 4 percent of the total global spam. It is ahead of other Asian countries such as China (3.39 percent), Republic of Korea (2.57 percent) and Thailand (2.04 percent). Asia contributes 16.57 percent of the global spam volume.

Spammers Choose GMail

A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply while spam originating from Yahoo and Hotmail remained flat or dipped slightly. Experts say this huge rise in spam is thanks to the cracking of Google’s CAPTCHA system. Spammers came up with an OCR scanner that was smart enough to read it and as a result were able to create large numbers of accounts to spam with.

UK is a spam and phishing hotspot

Anti-spam firm calls for collaborative action to stem a fast-growing tide of spam and phishing attacks it has found originated and aimed at UK users.

Barracuda Spam Firewall Rejects Invalid Non-Delivery Report Messages

Campbell, Calif., Aug. 21, 2008 – Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced a new feature in the Barracuda Spam Firewall that can differentiate legitimate Non-Delivery Report (NDR) messages – also known as bounce messages – from invalid NDR messages resulting from spoofing attacks. Using Invalid Bounce Suppression, the Barracuda Spam Firewall prevents “backscatter” messages from reaching innocent email senders.

MessageLabs Intelligence July 2008: Spammers Use Google Sites to Host Spam

MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008. Analysis highlights that spammers continued the trend of abusing Google's hosted applications to host spam. Previously abused applications include Google Docs, Google Pages and Google Calendar. Google Sites allows a novice to easily create a web page composed of a string of random letters and numbers resulting in a URL that is more difficult to block using traditional signature-based anti-spam tools.

MessageLabs Intelligence July 2008: Spammers Use Google Sites to Host Spam

NEW YORK, NY and LONDON -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 08/05/08 -- MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008. Analysis highlights that spammers continued the trend of abusing Google's hosted applications to host spam. Previously abused applications include Google Docs, Google Pages and Google Calendar. Google Sites allows a novice to easily create a web page composed of a string of random letters and numbers resulting in a URL that is more difficult to block using traditional signature-based anti-spam tools.

MessageLabs Intelligence July 2008: Spammers Use Google Sites to Host Spam

NEW YORK, NY and LONDON--(MARKET WIRE)--Aug 5, 2008 -- MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for July 2008. Analysis highlights that spammers continued the trend of abusing Google's hosted applications to host spam. Previously abused applications include Google Docs, Google Pages and Google Calendar. Google Sites allows a novice to easily create a web page composed of a string of random letters and numbers resulting in a URL that is more difficult to block using traditional signature-based anti-spam tools.

India among top 10 spammers

NEW DELHI: India figures among the top 10 spam sending countries, accounting for nearly 3% of spam sent globally in the second quarter of 2008, according to enterprise security firm Secure Computing’s Internet Threats report. Spam or unsolicited e-mails sent from emerging markets is expected to grow as internet infrastructure improves.

India spamming, and how

BANGALORE: India is the 7th largest spam sender in the world, according to Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security. India is the leader among Asian countries in spam, accounting for more than 4 per cent of the total global spam. It is ahead of other Asian countries such as China (3.39 per cent), Republic of Korea (2.57 per cent) and Thailand (2.04 per cent).

Trend Micro: India is highest-spamming nation in Asia

India is the leader among Asian countries in spam, accounting for more than 4% of the total global spam. It is ahead of other Asian countries such as China (3.39%), Republic of Korea (2.57%) and Thailand (2.04%). Asia contributes 16.57% of the global spam volume.

Spam email piracy warning hoax

Pirate Cybercriminals are playing on people's fears of becoming unwittingly involved in piracy with a new spam campaign.

Spam and Cybercrime Are Linked (Duh!)

Many of the spam messages received were phishing e-mails, which pose as a trustworthy source to criminally acquire sensitive information such as user names, passwords and bank account details. Other e-mails carried viruses, and many allowed malware to be silently installed on the computers by persuading participants to surf unsafe Web sites.

Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack

Categories: Hackers, Browsers, Spam and Phishing, Botnets, Google, Passwords, Adobe, Flash, Anti Virus, Malware, Web 2.0, Social Networking Applications

'Spam attack' halts Virgin e-mail

Tens of thousands of Virgin customers have spent four days cut off from, or with little access to, their e-mail accounts after a suspected spam attack.

Virus-spreading spam targets nervous parents

A new virus-laden spam message asks the scary question: "Do You Know Where Your Baby Is?" It doesn't know the real answer, but is hoping you click.

Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash

CWmike writes "More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking on links in mail that's part of a massive spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications, security researchers said today. The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web site, include links to what are supposedly the day's Top 10 news stories and Top 10 news video clips from the cable network. Clicking on any of those links, however, brings up a dialog that says an incorrect version of Flash Player has been detected and that tells users they needed to update to a fake newer edition, which delivers a Trojan horse — identified by multiple names, including Cbeplay.a — that "phones home" to a malicious server to grab and install additional malware.

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