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As ever, the advice is: do not click any link in any email whose legitimacy is not certain.

Another instance of criminal activity manifests as an email attack spoofing a foremost Spanish-language television news network, seeking to trick recipients into following hyperlinks that lead to a dangerous destination. The pretext of the attack is a fake announcement of a world-famous Latin-American political leader.

Overshadowing its competition, a heavy spam attack ran throughout the day on Monday.

Some days there are fewer, other days there are more, occasionally there are none: Online Gambling spam violates laws and conventions, and burdens legitimate Internet Email users. Here's a description of today's casino junk.

Today we saw an unusually large run of email phishing attacks, especially notable for the nearly one-to-one ratio of sending IP addresses to individual email instances.

Here are four current examples of email threats, showing malware in attachments, an advertisement for spamming services, and Chinese spam using punctuation to evade filters.

We encountered some extremely high-volume attacks, featuring some unusual content.

Here are descriptions of spam attacks advertising pharmaceuticals, dating, software, and spamming.

A spam attack uses Twitter email messages to carry the spammer's content.

SonicWALL Email Security Threat Analysis team reports two unusual fraud attacks.

Special techniques - spam payload in attachments, and an offer to provide forgeries of academic documents.

As January ended and February began, the SonicWALL Email Security system saw a nearly threefold increase in spam.

Two attacks dominated the scene:

Pharmacy ads comprised about 40%of the total.

Russian bride ads comprised about 25% of the total.

The email contains links that lead to an immediate attempt to inject malware.

A new ploy in pharmacy spam puts the payload in an mp3 file.

Here are three recently-launched new attacks: ASCII Art spam, fraud, and phishing.

Spammers launched a blitz email attack characterized by content being text only, very brief, and URLs leading to malware injection attempts.

Here are five noteworthy attacks:

ASCII Art

Single-link Content

Online Dating Club

Spamming Services

Link to Malware Loader

Sent in large numbers, the emails contain several lines of text and have a zipped executable as the attachment.

This post describes three recent attacks:

Intensive and Extensive Use of URL Compression Services

New Russian Spam Services Ads

ASCII Art

This post features three examples of recent attacks, all of them containing only text.

Recent spam attacks run the gamut of language and amount of content; here we discuss English and Chinese items, and content ranging from a single hyperlink, to lots of to-the-point text, to lots of pointless text accompanying a large image.

Two notably high-volume attacks are described in this post.

Russian gangs offering spamming services get creative with "ransom note" spam.

Over the past week, we have seen a massive outbreak of short spam with obfuscated URLs.

The SonicWALL Email Security team intercepted a series of malware attacks. This post describes four attacks that were capable of infecting unprotected hosts.

Detailed information about SonicWALL Anti-Virus systems is available at

https://www.mysonicwall.com/SonicAlert/index.asp

The SonicWALL Email Security team intercepted another flurry of malware attacks that included two spoofs of Microsoft products and one spoof of UPS.

Spammers lauched a variety of malware attacks, featuring electronic postcards, e-greetings, parcel delivery service, and banking.

Malware attack failed to include the payload.

During this Memorial Day weekend we saw several major spam outbreaks. Two of these outbreaks employed images -- one as a linked image and the other as an embedded image payload.