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 July 23, 2010Revisiting the King of Spam
 
We revisit and analyze the world's worst spamming botnet - Rustock.
 June 30, 2010Adobe releases PDF patch for Reader and Acrobat
 
The latest security update addresses 17 vulnerabilities in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader products.
 June 30, 2010GootKit - Automated Website Infection
 
The GootKit bot uses stolen FTP credentials to insert malicious IFrame code into web pages.
 June 23, 2010Another round of Asprox SQL injection attacks
 
The Asprox bot is behind some of the latest SQL injection attacks.
 June 21, 2010Amazon, Flixster, GoDaddy names targeted by spammers
 
Yet more pharmaceutical spam campaigns mimicking legitimate online stores and brands.
 June 16, 2010Skype 'Extras Manager' Vulnerability Found In The Wild
 
Vendors who disclose vulnerability information should be aware that their users aren't the only ones monitoring them.
 June 14, 2010Pushdo uses World Cup Theme to Spread Malware
 
Pushdo is sending spam with HTML attachments which take users to a malicious website and a Canadian Pharmacy website. Subject lines refer to the FIFA World Cup and Twitter.
 June 9, 2010World Cup Twitter or just another Canadian pharmacy spam campaign?
 
Fake Twitter notifications are still being used by Canadian pharmacy spammers.
 June 5, 2010The Asprox Spambot Resurrects
 
The Asprox botnet springs to life after being spammed out by the Pushdo botnet.
 May 13, 2010iTunes Gift Certificate Malware
 
An iTunes Gift Certificate scam - one of Pushdo's latest malicious spam campaigns.
 May 11, 2010More Spamit Footprints
 
More Spamit footprints are found in a new spambot's template.
 May 9, 2010Google Groups malicious spam campaign
 
A large spam campaign is directing users to Google Groups to download malware.
 May 5, 2010Canadian Pharmacy no Longer King
 
Our latest survey of affiliate brands promoted in spam show Canadian Pharmacy has lost around half its market share to a competing brand.
 April 29, 2010Web Exploits - There's an App for That
 
M86 Security Labs has released a report that examines in detail the growing problem of Web Exploit kits.
 April 28, 2010The Storm is back? Well, not exactly.
 
Has the Storm worm really returned from the dead? There certainly is a new spambot around, based on Storm's code, but it is not quite the Storm of old.
 April 27, 2010New, More Advanced PDF /Launch Attack
 
A new PDF attack exploiting the /Launch action feature is in the wild.
 April 21, 2010Twitter Spam Campaign Selling Viagra
 
Spammer impersonates Twitter message notification with links pointing to the Canadian Pharmacy website.
 April 14, 2010PDF 'Launch' Feature Used to Install Zeus
 
We are seeing PDFs in spam that use the PDF 'Launch' feature to install a malicious executable embedded inside the PDF.
 April 12, 20102010 Masters SEO poisoning
 
The 2010 Masters golf tournament is the latest hot topic used for SEO poisoning,.
 April 7, 2010Spam Domain Lifetimes
 
We see how long spammers actually advertise their domains for and what country code top-level domains they use.

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