Co-Author: Avdhoot Patil
Lottery scams are not new to the world of phishing, so phishers are always seeking new fake lottery strategies. Phishers gained interest in schemes that involved dona
Category: Hosted Mail Security
Not Allowing Spammers the Slightest Space
May 21, 2012
Symantec
For anti-spam software, it is quite easy to prevent spam by using content-based filters. So spammers come up with different obfuscation techniques to bypass URL-based filters such as inserting &ldq
Phishers Eye Korean Customers
May 17, 2012
Symantec
Co-author: Avdhoot Patil
Phishers have enveloped the globe mimicking brands across a variety of industries and using many languages. From April 2012, phishing attacks in Korean gained momentu
Rise of .in URLs in Spam
May 14, 2012
Symantec
Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing URLs using the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India. This chart shows percentage of spam containing .in URLs: