Ransomware has become a popular way for the bad guys to extort money from users. It is usually installed by drive-by exploit kits such as Blackhole and Cool. After a user is infected, his machine is made inoperative and he will see a warning screen that claims child porn, copyright material, unlicensed software and malware […]
Recently, we’ve seen an Amazon spam in the wild that looks like this: click to enlarge The sender’s name was deliberately called “Amazon.com” to make the spam appear legitimate. What gives away this particular spam, however, is that this sends to multiple recipients even if the email is meant for an individual. All links in […]
Hot on the trail of yesterday's spoofed Craigslist malicious emails comes another variant, spotted today. This one spoofs a Xanga blog notification about a comment on your blog. So far we have seen about 140,000 of these in our Cloud Email Security portal. Websense Email Security and Websense Web Security protect against this kind of blended threat with ACE, our Advanced Classification Engine. Let’s […]
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