Pharma-Fraud Continues to Dominate Spam
Have you taken a look inside your Spam folder recently?  Without a doubt you’ll find the folder full of pharmacy Spam, pitching everything from Cialis and Viagra to Vicodin and Hydrocodone.  The problem is almost none of the linked web sites are legitimate certified pharmacies.Pharmacy Spam is delivered at an ... Read More
Tiger Woods (Searches) Not to Be Trusted
Tiger Woods’ personal life and marital affairs have attracted constant attention from the press and has certainly damaged his public reputation. With his return to the Masters only days away, Nike has released a new commercial in an effort to rebuild Woods’ image. This compelling commercial is intended to spark ... Read More
Affiliate Programs Rising Cause of Fraud and Abuse
What happens when you offer up money to anyone who can drive traffic to your website? Hackers, scammers, spammers and fraudsters come to your aid. That’s the case with online movie site zml.com, which offers 30% of each sale and 5% of rebills paid via anonymous means to anyone who ... Read More
Obfuscated URLs no match for eSoft SiteFilter
Researchers at Kaspersky labs have discovered a new banking malware campaign that uses an old trick to obfuscate malicious URLs. Rather than using a domain name or IP address for their malicious link the URL is converted to numerical bases such as octal or hexadecimal formats. These formats are supported ... Read More
Virus Alert! Twitter, Google, Hallmark and Others Subject To Attack
The eSoft Threat Prevention Team is warning customers today of a new email scam circulating very quickly. Â These fraudulent emails claim to be from Google Staffing, Hallmark, Twitter as well as other social networks and legitimate businesses.The email persuades the user to open the attached zip file to find out ... Read More
Hotmail Users Look for Answers in Dangerous Places
An outage of the Windows Live ID service affected a large number of MSN users today including users of the popular Hotmail email service. Hotmail is one of the largest web based email outlets and not surprisingly news of the outage spread quickly as users were not able to access ... Read More
IRS Tax Avoidance Scam
Today, eSoft is alerting customers to a new targeted email scam. This newest twist to the common IRS email scam seems to be targeted to organizations, notifying the recipient of a tax evasion complaint being filed against the company. Opening the file infects the user's machine with dangerous trojans that ... Read More
Fake Firefox Update Pages Push Adware
Since its’ release on January 21st, the newest version of the Firefox web browser has received a great deal of attention. In just a short time it has achieved over 30 million downloads. Adware pushers are capitalizing on the success of Firefox, packing ad serving software in with the program ... Read More
Super Bowl Associations: football, nachos, big screens and … malware?
The Super Bowl is the one of the biggest and most watched television events of the year in the United States. People everywhere scour the internet looking for predictions, gambling spreads and news before the event and scores, stories and clips after the event. In anticipation of the increased search ... Read More
Lack of Egress Filtering Spurs Success of Injected IFrame Attack
The security community at large and the eSoft Threat Prevention Team have recently noticed an uptick in sites compromised by a new injection attack that results in an injected iframe. Â This attack can be recognized by its attempts to masquerade the malicious script as GNU GPL or LGPL. Â GPL and ... Read More
