Amazon and Greeting cards to distribute malware
We want to inform you of two different email messages we’ve been receiving lately in the lab in order to distribute malware designed to steal information. One of them seems to have been sent by Amazon and informs you that they have received your payment and your order has been already sent. In order to [...]
Another Fake Conficker Infection Alert campaign
Since yesterday, we have detected a flood of email messages that seem to have been sent by Microsoft informing users that their network is infected with the worm Conficker with the purpose to distribute rogueware. We’ve seen around 2,500 in a few hours. We’ve seen similar spam campaigns before, in April 2009 and in October [...]
eBay Phishing
We want to warn you of a phishing message we’ve detected in circulation affecting eBay members with the purpose to get their credentials. The message seems to have been sent by “eBay†and uses the same logo and appearance as the original one to trick users and make them think it’s trustworthy: Something that has [...]
Microsoft Support informs you…
Since yesterday, our lab has detected a flood of email messages that seem to contain a Microsoft Update, but it’s actually malware. We’ve seen around 3,000 in a few hours. The message is like the following: This email, which seems to have been sent by the Microsoft Support team, informs you that a new security update [...]
Spam using Twitter and Youtube
Spam is something that we see on a daily basis. Everyday thousands of unwanted e-mails arrive to our mailboxes. We have seen them in all kind of flavours. Plain text, html, instant messaging, images, pdf, even in MP3. Users are able to learn, so usually when we know that a message is spam, we don’t [...]
Blog Comment Spam Honeypot
One of the most common vectors for distributing malware nowadays is spamming blogs with comments pointing to malicious sites that host exploits, malware, rogue antiviruses or other types of scams. In order to analyze the huge volume of spam comments that come in through our various Panda Blogs (PandaLabs, Panda Research, Panda Cloud Antivirus Blog, [...]
Fake IRS Notifications
Fake IRS notification e-mails have been in circulation on the Internet over the past few weeks. We've monitored the situation closely and have observed 30 active domain names currently spreading the Zeus trojan affiliated with the spam campaign, as well as 300 links used in the attack over the past month. The e-mail arrives as [...]
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Spam as a financial tool (II)
The Mexican one was not a success as far as we can see. But we are seeing a lot of similar spam messages everyday, here is an example: [imageattachment]
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Spam as a financial tool
Everyone knows that spam is used to advertise all kind of products and that hackers use it in other ways (installing malware through exploits, etc.). The message usually links to an external site, but it's not always like that. We have recently seen spam messages about a deal from a Canadian company. The message was an advice [...]
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