Virus bulletin has an interesting post about DMARC and how some criminals are protecting their emails with DMARC.
March 4, 2015
Ransomware email protected by DMARC
04March
July 6, 2012
DNS Changer servers going offline
06July
There are a whole host of different botnets. One botnet run by Rove Digital infected computers with viruses that changed their DNS settings, giving the botnet runners the ability to control how the infected computers viewed the Internet. The criminals behind the DNS Changer virus were arrested in November of last year. The court ordered the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) to operate replacement...
June 25, 2012
Scam, Scam, Scam
25June
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about phishers is how incredibly creative they can be in writing text that encourages recipients to open their emails. There have been two separate incident recently that inspired me to talk about phishing. The first was watching viruses propagate through my local neighborhood mailing list. I live in Silicon Valley and we do have an email list for...
August 22, 2011
Uptick in botnet spam
22August
There’s been a heavy uptick in botnet spam over the last few days, judging by things I’m hearing and my own mailboxes. There are a few common subject lines, but all of them are trying to get recipients to either run programs or visit malicious web pages. The first subject line I’m seeing a lot of is “<name> wants to be friends with you on facebook!” In my...
May 19, 2011
User education doesn't work
19May
A growing OSX security problem illustrates why user education is not the solution to virus, spam or malware problems.
HT: @briankrebs
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