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  • Compromised Yahoo! accounts continue to spread Android malware

    Problem likely to be on Yahoo!’s side. In recent weeks, we have noticed an uptick in the amount of spam sent from compromised Yahoo! accounts; we have reasons to believe the problems are on Yahoo! ‘s side, rather than that of its users’. Spam sent from compromised accounts is notoriously hard to filter: the sender…

  • Latest VBSpam tests show web host spam harder to block

    Most filters see a small increase in their catch rates overall. The results of VB ‘s latest spam filter test show that the spam sent from web hosts is significantly harder to block than spam sent via other means. Following various reports on the amount of spam sent from compromised web hosts, we compared delivery…

  • Microsoft ‘found to make requests’ to URLs shared via Skype

    HEAD requests likely used to determine landing page. Is Microsoft checking all the links you share via Skype ? German online magazine Heise thinks so. A reader of security magazine Heise discovered that all URLs sent via Skype chat received a request from an IP address that was registered with Microsoft (which bought Skype in…

  • Cybercriminals quick to exploit emerging news

    Malicious emails appear a matter of hours after news of explosions in the US. It would have come as little surprise to anyone in the security industry that within hours of this week’s tragic news emerging from the US, spammers, scammers and malware writers had already begun to exploit interest in the breaking news stories.…

  • Different focus on spam needed

    What happens before the filter doesn’t matter too much. It is surprisingly difficult to get accurate figures for the amount of spam that is sent globally, yet everyone agrees that the global volume of spam has come down a lot since its peak in late 2008. At the same time, despite some recent small decreases…

  • Catch rates drop in latest VBSpam tests

    Spam more of a challenge for majority of products. The results of VB’s latest spam filter test show that spam has become more difficult to filter – with 15 of the 19 products missing more spam than they did in the last test. Nine out of the 19 full solutions tested saw the percentage of…

  • Spam link sends Android users to trojan proxy

    Meanwhile, desktop users sent to (relatively harmless) weight-loss site. Links found in certain spam emails which redirect desktop users to a phony weight-loss website, have been found to send mobile users to a trojan proxy, according to researchers at Lookout . Clicking links in spam emails falls into the “don’t try this at home” category,…

  • VB data supports Google’s claim to having reduced compromised accounts

    Internet giant may indeed do something right; Yahoo! has a real problem. Internet giant Google claims that a ‘complex risk analysis’ using ‘more than 120 variables’ has reduced the number of compromised accounts on its system by 99.7% since 2011. VB ‘s data suggests that this could indeed be the case. It is usually good…

  • Massive drop in PPI SMS spam after spammers fined

    Levels still higher than for most of 2012. Security firm Cloudmark has reported a significant drop in the amount of PPI (Payment Protection Insurance) spam sent via SMS in the UK after two major spammers were fined, but noted that the levels are still higher than they were for most of last year. SMS spam…

  • Impressive results in latest VBSpam test

    Excellent performances in spam filter test – plus evidence of a correlation between spam ‘passing’ SPF and an increased delivery rate. No fewer than ten anti-spam solutions achieved a VBSpam+ award in VB’s latest spam filter test, with another ten achieving a standard VBSpam award. The results of the latest VBSpam test are good news…