Tag: email
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New Emotet spam campaign continues to bypass email security products
Following the resumption of activity by Emotet’s C&C servers in August, it was only a matter of time before the botnet started sending out spam again. This did indeed happen on Monday morning. Many, though not all, of the emails Emotet sent out this week used a trick that the malware has used before :…
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From Amazon to Emotet: a look at those phishing and malware emails that bypassed email security products
This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. On this blog, we regularly look at those phishing and malware emails that we notice bypassing email security products in our test lab – something which they do at much a higher rate than ordinary spam emails. This…
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From Amazon to Emotet: a look at those phishing and malware emails that bypassed email security products
This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. On this blog, we regularly look at those phishing and malware emails that we notice bypassing email security products in our test lab – something which they do at much a higher rate than ordinary spam emails. This…
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From HSBC to product descriptions: the malicious emails bypassing your filters
Over a one-week period earlier this month, the average email with a malicious attachment was almost three times as likely to bypass email security products than a spam email without such an attachment. When it came to phishing emails ─ a category in which we include emails that link to malware ─ the situation was…
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From HSBC to product descriptions: the malicious emails bypassing your filters
Over a one-week period earlier this month, the average email with a malicious attachment was almost three times as likely to bypass email security products than a spam email without such an attachment. When it came to phishing emails ─ a category in which we include emails that link to malware ─ the situation was…
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Emotet trojan starts stealing full emails from infected machines
Researchers at Kryptos Logic have discovered that the Emotet banking trojan is exfiltrating entire email bodies as opposed to merely email addresses. Emotet was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan but has since evolved to become mostly a distributor of other malware. A typical Emotet infection starts with an email attachment, which downloads…
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Emotet trojan starts stealing full emails from infected machines
Researchers at Kryptos Logic have discovered that the Emotet banking trojan is exfiltrating entire email bodies as opposed to merely email addresses. Emotet was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan but has since evolved to become mostly a distributor of other malware. A typical Emotet infection starts with an email attachment, which downloads…
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We are more ready for IPv6 email than we may think
In email security circles, IPv6 is the elephant in the room. While the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a relatively smooth affair for most of the Internet, and few people will have noticed that a large part of Internet traffic is currently using IPv6, email is still lagging behind: RIPE, Europe’s Regional Internet Registry,…