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Macro Threats and Ransomware Make Their Mark: A Midyear Look at the Email Landscape

  • Posted on:August 31, 2015 at 1:14 pm
  • Posted in:Ransomware, Spam
  • Author:
    Maydalene Salvador (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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Email can be considered a big business—for cybercrime. In 2014, 196.3 billion emails were sent and received daily. Of that number, 108.7 billion were business emails. With the volume of business emails sent daily, it would be unimaginable for cybercriminals not to take advantage of email to target big businesses. And those attempts can result in million-dollar…

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Tags: 1H 2015 spam roundupemailemail roundupmacroSpamspam roundup

IP Reputation and Spam Prevention: Working with Email Providers

  • Posted on:September 3, 2014 at 1:46 pm
  • Posted in:Spam
  • Author:
    Michael Tants (Threats Analyst)
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Today, spam may not be regarded as the most high-profile concern, but it’s still a serious day-to-day threat. Every month, our users alone have to deal with billions of spam messages. These are also frequently used to deliver malware using attachments or links to malicious sites. One of the most powerful tools in dealing with spam…

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Tags: emailemail service providerIP reputationSpam

AOL Mail Service Hacked, Compromised Emails Used To Send Spam

  • Posted on:April 24, 2014 at 12:58 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Spam
  • Author:
    Maria Manly (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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A few days ago, America Online, or AOL, confirmed that their mail service – AOL Mail – had been hacked, with the email addresses (allegedly only 1% of their entire customer base) either compromised and/or spoofed to send spam with links leading to phishing pages.  We combed through the Internet to look for samples of…

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Tags: AOLemailSpam

Scams Circulate After German Email Accounts Get Hacked

  • Posted on:February 3, 2014 at 1:48 pm
  • Posted in:Social
  • Author:
    Michael Tants (Threats Analyst)
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Recently, the German Federal Office for Information Security disclosed that the email accounts of up to 16 million users had been compromised. The computers of these users were infected with information-stealing malware which were used to steal these login credentials. The German government has set up a page where users can check if their email accounts…

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Tags: emailFederal Office for Information SecurityGermanyscam

Changes to Gmail’s Image Display Defaults May Change Your Privacy

  • Posted on:December 18, 2013 at 8:02 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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Recently Google announced that it had changed its policy dealing with images in email. In a blog post on the official Gmail blog, Google said: [You’ll] soon see all images displayed in your messages automatically across desktop, iOS and Android. Instead of serving images directly from their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve…

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Tags: emailGmailGoogleimagesSpamweb bugs
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