It’s that time of the year where tax forms are filed and (unfortunately) personal information is sent around via unencrypted email. Internal email, that is email between users in a company on their own email system, can be considered as secure as the server itself for the most part (which one may interpret the degree […]
Recently, we stumbled across an existing website that seems to be part of some adware that a user can inadvertently install that changes his homepage to secure-surf.biz. While this site has no relation to the AppRiver Web protection platform, SecureSurf™, it does share a similar name. The culprit is likely software or adware that changes a […]
Windows shortcut files have seen a small rise in popularity lately. The shortcut files, using the .lnk file extension, are essentially small files Windows uses to point elsewhere in the file system. Normally you may think of shortcuts to other programs like your browser or a game residing on your desktop. Well this malware is […]
PDF phishing emails seem to be popular these days. While the PDF format isn’t immune to its own vulnerabilities used for malware, the biggest abuse we see is a phishing link embedded in the PDF leading to an external site. With the popularity of PDF files in general and the fact you can embed links […]
Earlier this year, we had a lull in malware traffic for about three weeks after the Necurs botnet quite suddenly stopped sending out junk. History repeated itself on October 6th when we experienced another drop in malware traffic. Today, that dive in traffic might be over, ending this streak. The Locky malware has kicked it […]