The FIFA World Cup 2010has come and gone; however, spammers and malware writers are still exploiting this global event as happened previously with the Icelandic Volcano eruption. One particular targeted attack related to the World Cup was socially engineered with …

Recently, whilst searching for a particular solution on the Internet, I encountered the following post in a forum: Surely, not the solution I was looking for. However, the post is strange and did catch my attention. Apart from the broken …

A mass operation is underway to infect several thousands of computers worldwide. The attack from the malware writers is taking place from various sources using an array of different techniques. Information regarding this attack until now is very limited however …

DHL Delivery Problem NR.59544 Another day, another example exposing the fragile human security in an organization. Malware writers and spammers greatly depend on disguising their payload as innocent messages or software, which may even pretend to be offering a form …

During the recent months, spam originating from China has been hitting the mailboxes of users from all over the world. One interesting fact is that this latest wave of spam is constructed differently from its predecessors. What makes this spam …

You may already be familiar with SPAM emails that contain just one sentence about weight loss; Oprah and the infamous Acai berries. What is interesting about this current spam storm is that the spammer did not try to bypass any anti-spam filtering technologies. Surely, most products would have filtered such email as spam. Hence, the question to pose is ‘What is the aim of such spam?’