Here is the original post: http://msorin.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/colorful-spam-twist-for-bypassing-spamfilters Here is the Softpedia article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTML-Design-Tricks-Used-to-Hide-Spam-107861.shtml
A new technique to avoid spam filters: http://techblog.avira.com/2009/03/25/colorful-spam-twist-for-bypassing-spamfilters/en/ The technique will be added here as well: http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/spammerscompendium/colormatrix.xml
Don’t you just hate them ?! I do… They are just wasting my CPU power and bandwidth to detect such stupid evasion techniques. I mean… look at the picture below: Why the hack would I send to myself a picture with all kind of meds and then, write at the end some text from a […]
Have a look at this picture taken today. I live there and those are the post boxes of all the inhabitants of that building. My box is in the middle (see the notes). That sticker does the job 🙂 I never received a commercial … NEVER !!! Can you believe this ? My neighbor has […]
I received a post from my friend John Graham-Cumming (www.jgc.org) where he announced that he retires from the antispam industry. I even asked him if this is a joke. No, it is not. John, I am sorry to see you leave, I wish you good luck in your future activity, whatever that might be. Now, […]
I received this email from a guy from GFI who contacted me on the email address published on the website. Interesting mode to make publicity. Practically, they want me to spread the word about their company. Cheap marketing, nothing to say. 🙂 Now, how can we differentiate between a spam and such a message ? […]
John Graham Cumming is maintaining his Spammer’s Compendium and he is giving names to spam techniques. I reported some time ago one technique used in PayPal phishing emails and he created a method: Cross your fingers and click (UH!Mustaca!HTML) What: Making what looks like a valid link to PayPal turn into a link to a […]
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Last evening I analyzed a new type of spam, together with Oliver Auerbach. It has been published immediately on the avira.com website, thanks to Oliver. Source: http://www.avira.com/en/security_news/new_type_of_stock_spam.html Content: Tettnang, Wed, 20 June 2007 – Avira warns about a new type of spam which is currently sent to users within Germany. The spam claims to be […]
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