Articles by Jagadeesh Chandraiah

About Jagadeesh Chandraiah

Researcher, SophosLabs UK

You are today's Macbook Air Winner !

by Jagadeesh Chandraiah on November 21, 2009 | Leave a comment
You are today's Macbook Air Winner !

SophosLabs were today's Macbook air winners according to the cyber criminals. We received loads of these congratulation emails on our spam traps today. They were spamming out the malicious attachments which Sophos successfully detects as Troj/Agent-LNC. The email was attached Read more…

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Newsletter Templates in Spam

by Jagadeesh Chandraiah on September 13, 2009 | Leave a comment
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Today we saw a Viagra campaign hitting our spamtraps. It's not unusual to see Viagra campaigns, the notable aspect is the different tactics the spammers are implementing  to evade spam filters 2. In today's case we saw spammers using newsletter templates in their emails. Online Read more…

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Viagra Campaign with Discounts

by Jagadeesh Chandraiah on May 24, 2009 | Leave a comment
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It is perfectly normal to see Viagra related spam hitting our spam traps. In many cases the spammers attempt to be professional, offering great discounts and "guaranteed satisfaction" on their products. They often use celebrity pictures as well, to add Read more…

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