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Creative Chinese spam hides inside resized HTML textarea tags

01

Nov

2011

You’ll have to take our word for it – the text below comes from Chinese spam. The text asks recipients to view the attached Excel sheet and forward it on to any relevant staff. Of course this sort of text is bound to trigger content-based spam filters, so creative spammers are using an HTML trick […]

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Increased usage of unregistered spam domains

27

Oct

2011

Consider the spam email below: It promotes an online casino site. URL filtering systems that block access to such sites usually run a few checks before adding the URL to the “spam” category. One of these checks is that the URL is registered. Once this is known the date of registration can be checked – […]

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Spam outbreak makes large-scale use of compromised Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL accounts as well as WordPress sites

11

Oct

2011

An ongoing outbreak is making extensive use of stolen accounts from Yahoo, Hotmail (Live) and AOL accounts. Sample emails sent from these accounts are shown below. A wide range of accounts have been tracked by Commtouch Labs – several thousand for each provider. The emails do not have a subject and simply feature a link […]

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