Malware distribution techniques

At first I thought of a new phishing email, based on the fact that it comes from a bank, includes a long URL in the body and it is related to your banking account where you need to renew your certificate.
Connection-Colonial Bank Renewal
Certificate Renewal
Personal (Smartcard) e-Cert  Personal e-Cert
Certificate owner must renew the certificate before expiry [...]

Phishing levels peak

MX Lab detects in increase in phishing emails between 09/04/2008 and 13/04/2008, bringing the phishing level up to 0,28% of all blocked messages where in the past this level was 0,03%.
These phishing emails are mostly regarding a “locked bank account” or “verify your details” but we see other phishing attempts targeting Google Adwords customers stating [...]

Very good PayPal phishing email

A certain phishing email from ‘PayPal’ caught our attention. When investigating the phishing email we could find that this is a very professional one. The email in fact confirms your payment to a company, in this case Plimus, for an amout of$55,89 USD. The email provides a link to dispute the transaction and this is [...]

MX Lab protects Comap Nordic email communication

After providing email security for Comap Benelux, MX Lab extends its services to protect email communication for the domains comap.se/.no/.fi and .dk.