Tag: spam
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Emotet continues to bypass many email security products
Emails with a malicious link or attachment form only a small minority of the spam that is sent every day. If it appears that such emails are more common than that, it is not just because such emails are potentially more damaging: we have repeatedly seen that they are far more likely to bypass 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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The malspam security products miss: Emotet, Ursnif, and a spammer’s blunder
This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. Virus Bulletin uses email feeds provided by Abusix and Project Honey Pot . In our VBSpam test lab , we continue to receive spam from around the world, including a fair number of emails carrying malware, or with…
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The malspam security products miss: Emotet, Ursnif, and a spammer’s blunder
This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. Virus Bulletin uses email feeds provided by Abusix and Project Honey Pot . In our VBSpam test lab , we continue to receive spam from around the world, including a fair number of emails carrying malware, or with…
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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…