Sep 12, 2013 | Security Research & Analysis
Sie sind wieder da. Nicht, dass wir sie vermisst hätten – die Spam-E-Mails vom Xerox Work Center. „Scanned Image from a Xerox WorkCentre“ hieß es in der Betreffzeile vieler E-Mails der letzten Stunden. Rund 80 Prozent Anteil an der verschickten Malware der letzten 24...
Oct 25, 2012 | Security Research & Analysis
Wednesday the 24th saw huge of amounts of email-attached malware distributed – all with an “office” theme. The attacks pushed the amount of email up by several hundred percent and totaled near five billion emails sent worldwide. The first part of the day saw emails...
May 23, 2018 | Security Research & Analysis
A Chinese proverb may state, “good things come in pairs”, but this was not the case in 2017. In 2017, we discovered an email threat that was carrying not one, but two different malicious attachments as bait: a PDF file and a Microsoft Template file (OpenXML/DOTX)....
Aug 18, 2014 | Security Research & Analysis
What You See Isn’t Necessarily What You Get A rise in malware distributed via fake document icons has been consistent over the past few years. While nothing new, unsuspecting victims regularly still get taken in by this form of cybercrime which primarily targets the...
Feb 5, 2013 | Security Research & Analysis
Der 10. Safer Internet Day ist für das Eleven Research-Team Anlass, auf aktuelle Gefahren im Internet und speziell für die geschäftliche E-Mail-Kommunikation hinzuweisen. Obwohl seit einiger Zeit ein Spam-Rückgang zu verzeichnen ist, ist die Gefahr durch massenhaft...
Jan 25, 2012 | Security Research & Analysis
If you were to summarize 7.2 million spam subjects from a single day into a tag cloud – what would it look like? er… like this! As you can see the main products being pushed today are fake watches, pharmaceuticals, enhancers and …. Xerox machines?? No – those belong...
Feb 9, 2011 | Security Research & Analysis
Chances are likely that your business uses Adobe Reader on a regular basis in order to read Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe Reader, formerly known as Acrobat Reader, is the number one program that is used to handle and read PDF files. Adobe Reader...