Cyberoam
has announced that its Q1 2008 e-mail threat trend report, prepared in collaboration
with partner Commtouch, reveals that malware distributors and spammers are now
hiding their unwanted messages within legitimate-appearing
Websites and messages. These tactics
include pharma spam camouflaged as Hotmail welcome letters, blogspot redirects
to malware sites, hidden malware sites in search result URLs, hosted spam images
on Flickr accounts and spear-phishing scams using Google and Yahoo! Calendar standards.
All of these methods deploy social and psychological engineering strategies to
take advantage of user trust and behaviour. On average, more than 350,000 zombies
were newly activated each day to facilitate this activity.
Cyberoam provides
a multi-layered defence against such attacks. A Commtouch RPD-based Anti-spam
engine filters all mail. Cyberoam also features content filtering protection by
adding URLs in custom categories to block the spread of the threat. Additionally,
Cyberoam features Anti-virus protection to block malware downloads.
Cyberoam
uses the Commtouch RPD technology to analyze large volumes of Internet traffic
in real-time. Its language and content agnostic nature enables it to provide effective
spam blocking capabilities.