Email Security Updates
Date
Title / Summary
10 Nov 2009
A fast-running high-volume quickly-changing email-based malware attack »
Spammers launched a blitz email attack characterized by content being text only, very brief, and URLs leading to malware injection attempts.
07 Oct 2009
Fast-running Fast-changing Malware Attack. »
Sent in large numbers, the emails contain several lines of text and have a zipped executable as the attachment.
21 Sep 2009
This post features three examples of recent attacks, all of them containing only text.
20 Aug 2009
Minimal content, Spam Services, Pharmacy Products: A sampling of recent spam. »
Recent spam attacks run the gamut of language and amount of content; here we discuss English and Chinese items, and content ranging from a single hyperlink, to lots of to-the-point text, to lots of pointless text accompanying a large image.
23 Jul 2009
Fraud and Pharmacy Spam Attacks Foiled by SonicWALL Email Security »
Two notably high-volume attacks are described in this post.
15 Jul 2009
Massive obfuscated URL spam outbreak »
Over the past week, we have seen a massive outbreak of short spam with obfuscated URLs.
15 Jul 2009
Russian gangs offering spamming services get creative with "ransom note" spam.
28 Jun 2009
Random poetry and Biblical spam »
For the last few days, we have seen a large outbreak of spam with short random poetical or Biblical contents.
22 Jun 2009
The SonicWALL Email Security team intercepted a series of malware attacks. »
The SonicWALL Email Security team intercepted a series of malware attacks. This post describes four attacks that were capable of infecting unprotected hosts.
05 Jun 2009
A flurry of varied malware attacks »
Spammers lauched a variety of malware attacks, featuring electronic postcards, e-greetings, parcel delivery service, and banking.
26 May 2009
Memorial Day Weekend Attacks »
During this Memorial Day weekend we saw several major spam outbreaks. Two of these outbreaks employed images -- one as a linked image and the other as an embedded image payload.
18 May 2009
Starting this weekend, we have seen a large ongoing attack with random subject, and body containing a single random link, usually under spaces.msn.com, with random anchor text.
12 May 2009
Fraudulent Web site and spam »
Be aware of several variations of fraudulent email linked to federalreserve-online.com.
29 Apr 2009
Tax phishing, swine flu virus, and short random spam »
Some recent big attacks include phishing posing as tax refund information, malware posing as swine flu information, and short random spam.
24 Apr 2009
WorldPay CARD transaction Confirmation »
Be aware of fake WorldPay payment notification emails containing virus.
17 Apr 2009
New Appearance for Pharmaceutical Spam »
Spam messages carrying links to pharmaceutical sites have a new look, the subject line is sexually or pharmaceutically suggestive.
14 Apr 2009
We are seeing a smaller volume of spam in English, with a converse increase in the proportion of Russian spam.
29 Mar 2009
Big outbreak today: viagra link in message disguised as account status »
For many hours today, a massive spam outbreak has been going on with subjects about financial account status, but linking to a viagra site.
27 Mar 2009
Tonight we observed a big outbreak of spam with nothing but one or two random strings in subject and body.
26 Mar 2009
Max Gentleman, and Russian spam about spam »
A recent attack promoting Max Gentleman, and Russian spam about spam
24 Mar 2009
Since the past few weeks we observed a small volume of image spams are coming back, compared to the huge volume of simple short text URL spams.
22 Mar 2009
Samurai Trains AIG Executives Spams »
This is a very interesting type of pharmacy spams using startling political subject like "Samurai Trains AIG Executives In Ritual Suicide".
21 Mar 2009
This Week's Canadian Pharmacy Spam Attack »
Today we observed a large number of new version pharmacy spam attack.
16 Mar 2009
The SonicWALL Email Security team intercepted numerous spam outbreaks between Friday and Monday, among them were two malware attacks.
13 Mar 2009
High-Rate Attack, Links Lead to Malware Sites, Spoofing Bank of America »
This attack, spoofing Bank of America, began around 9 AM PDT Friday. Except for the person's name and title in the signature, message body content is identical for all messages. Messages arrived with varied subjects, 50 to 80 items per subject. Link in message opens malware website.
11 Mar 2009
1) Very high volume attack. 2) Pointless spam attack »
1) Pharmacy spam attacks: high rate and high volume 2) Pointless spam: Directory Harvest Attack or spammer testing
02 Mar 2009
Huge facebook and random text attacks »
We saw two huge attacks this morning: Facebook spam, and viagra spam with random text.
26 Feb 2009
Recent large malware attacks posing as Delta and Bank of America »
Recent large malware attacks posing as Delta Airlines and Bank of America.
22 Feb 2009
During the weekend we have observed a huge volume of random spams.
20 Feb 2009
This week has a large volume of pharmacy spams but with shocking Obama related subject lines.
16 Feb 2009
Datacenter Issues Persist Throughout the Weekend »
Unfortunately, some thumbprint download issues persisted throughout the holiday weekend.
14 Feb 2009
Datacenter Issues Causes Thumbprint Download Interruptions »
We have experienced some issues in the datacenter that has caused an interruption of the thumbprint downloading process. The interruption occurred late Friday night (PST). As of this afternoon the problem is resolved.
27 Jan 2009
We've seen a continuing attack with greetings in the subject, short text and ever-changing links.
20 Jan 2009
A New Outbreak of Russian Language Spam »
Over the last couple days there has been a recent surge in Russian Language spam. These seem to be originating from spambots and are being addressed through data updates in the GRID network. Sam
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