Shocker: Scammers Exploit Death of Former Libyan Ruler

In one of the least surprising computer security news events of 2011, the death of longtime Libyan leader, and self-proclaimed “African King of Kings” Colonel Muammar Qaddafi spawned a slew of online scams. Within hours of Qaddafi’s capture and death at the hands of Libyan rebels, security firms...

Researchers Analyzing Attack Patterns With Cloud-Based Malware Data

BARCELONA–Successful targeted attacks against companies such as RSA, Google and others have made huge splashes in the news in the last year or two and drawn a lot of attention to the phenomenon. But it’s not just the successful attacks that are interesting, security researchers say. In many cases...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Malicious Attachment Email Messages on August 21, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 24111 First Published: 2011 September 12 13:30 GMT Last Updated: 2013 August 22 14:21 GMT Version: 95 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that contain malicious attachments. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Gmail Implements New Features to Help Curb Phishing

Google has implemented new security features into their popular Gmail Web-based email service that will help prevent Gmail users from becoming victims of phishing scams. The company introduced three new features late Tuesday that it claims will inform users of the origins of certain emails so the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Delivery Express Parcel Notification Email Messages on�August 25, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 22891 First Published: 2011 April 8 14:39 GMT Last Updated: 2015 August 27 13:02 GMT Version: 13 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that inform the recipient about a parcel delivery from Delivery Express. The text in the email...

Expert: Three Quarters of Employees Duped by Phishing Scams

In the wake of the data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon, the specter looms of widespread phishing attacks on hundreds of millions of e-mail users whose information was stolen from the firm. But according to Aaron Higbee, the Chief Technology Officer at Intrepidus Group, organizations had...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Western Union Money Transfer Transaction Email Messages on October 20, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 21930 First Published: 2010 December 1 13:41 GMT Last Updated: 2014 October 22 11:48 GMT Version: 20 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an attachment with information about a Western Union money transfer...

9) Meet the new spam, same as the old spam

As in life in general, if something works, you stick with it. How else to explain the continued popularity and prevelance of e-mail based spam and phishing attacks, even though everyone knows that e-mail is so “1998”? Alas, the truth is that attacks embedded as links or malicious attachments in...

Botnet Crackdowns Staunch Spam…For a Month

The crackdowns on massive, spam-spewing botnets disrupted the global flow of spam e-mail…for about a month. That, according to a new report out from Kaspersky Lab. “Spam in the Third Quarter of 2010” is the latest, quarterly report from Kaspersky’s anti virus research labs. It finds that several...

Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Email Scam

US-CERT is aware of public reports of an active email scam. These emails, which appear to come from seemingly legitimate law firms, indicate that someone has filed a copyright lawsuit against the message recipient. The messages may contain malicious attachments or web links. If a user opens the...

CVE-2006-0236

GUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an attachment with a filename containing a large number of spaces ending with a dangerous extension that is not displayed by Thunderbird, along with an...

PHP-Nuke 6.0 - Web Mail Remote PHP Script Execution

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6399/info A vulnerability has been discovered in the PHP-Nuke Web Mail module. When a user opens an email that contains an attachment, the file will be put in a remotely accessible web directory. It has been reported that the vulnerable module fails to...

Qualcomm Eudora 56 - File Attachment Spoofing (2)

Qualcomm Eudora 56 - File Attachment Spoofing 2 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5432/info Eudora is reported to be prone to an issue which may allow attackers to spoof the file extension in an attachment. This may aid an attacker in enticing a user of the e-mail client into executing...

Qualcomm Eudora 5/6 - File Attachment Spoofing (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5432/info Eudora is reported to be prone to an issue which may allow attackers to spoof the file extension in an attachment. This may aid an attacker in enticing a user of the e-mail client into executing malicious content, and in avoiding generating...

CVE-2001-0340

An interaction between the Outlook Web Access OWA service in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and Internet Explorer allows attackers to execute malicious script code against a user's mailbox via a message attachment that contains HTML code, which is executed automatically...