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An Anonymous Update
The group “Anonymous” who has been waging attacks on the Church of Scientology lately, both verbal, and DDoS, has issued another 2 minute video that attempts to dispel media claims that it is made up...
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Hold on to Your Credentials, Here Comes the SPIM!
For those of you unfamiliar with SPIM, it’s another in an ever growing list of terms created to categorize specific vectors of delivery for things digital and unwanted, this one refers to Spam via...
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Akamai Improves Security as well as Speed
We’ve written before about Akamai’s Internet optimization and how it dramatically increases reliability and download speeds for AppRiver’s Secure Hosted Exchange customers. What we haven’t spent much...
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SecureSurf News: Agent Release and Block Page Updates
Earlier today we announced we have released an agent for SecureSurf web protection from AppRiver that will give organizations more flexibility and visibility while protecting them from the latest...
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Spam Spike: New Virus Campaign Targets Bank of America Customers
Over the last month we’ve caught and blocked a set of virus campaigns that use new and novel tactics designed specifically to beat filtering engines. One common component of all these campaigns is...
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Robin Williams’ Death Used in Social Engineering Attacks
As the internet begins to flood with the word on the untimely death of comedian/actor Robin Williams yesterday, the cybercriminals immediately jumped on board in order to catch unsuspecting...
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Trojan Transfers
This morning we’re seeing a malware campaign purporting to come from Barclays Bank that is making a somewhat half-hearted attempt at tricking recipients into believing money has just been transferred...
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Anonymous Announces “Day of Rage”– Ferguson Protest
The infamous hacking group known as Anonymous today announced a National Day of Rage in protest of the current situation in Ferguson Missouri. Currently all media outlets are buzzing with constant...
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Newly Discovered APT: How many more lay in wait?
While reading this morning about an recently discovered APT dubbed “Machete” discovered by the team over at Kaspersky Labs, I was immediately reminded of a recent briefing I attended at Blackhat USA....
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iPhone Scams Abound
With many consumers chomping at the bit to get their hands on a new iPhone 6, internet scammers are quickly taking advantage to distribute their wares. Immediately following the unveiling of the new...
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Malicious “Amazon” Emails Aim to Infect Holiday Shoppers
Over the past several day we have been seeing several malicious email campaigns posing as legitimate communication from Amazon. The first campaign is posing as messages from the amazon.co.uk with the...
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Forged Best Buy Emails Distribute Malware
Fake Best Buy purchase confirmations attempting to spread malware have been circulating for the past week. These messages are simple. They appear with “Best Buy” in the [from] field and they inform...
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iOS 8 Calendar Events Display Dual Time Zones
By: Aaron Cohoon We’re getting reports from users on both AppRiver’s Hosted Exchange and Microsoft Office 365 platforms that calendar events are displaying two time zones on iPhones and iPads running...
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Office 365: Differences between Public Folders, Site Mailboxes and Shared...
A common issue that we encounter when migrating customers to AppRiver Secure Hosted Exchange or Office 365 is understanding the differences between public folders and shared mailboxes and when to use...
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Turbo Tax Hack: Fraudulent Returns Being Filed
Intuit, the company that owns the very popular tax software/service Turbo Tax, announced today that it is shutting down ALL state tax filing capabilities due to a recent rash of “suspicious” filings....
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Saying “I Love You” with All of My Malware
Do you remember passing out Valentine’s Day cards to your elementary schoolmates? It was a fun, innocent activity that everyone seemed to enjoy each February. The tradition carried on into the...
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This time it has a virus
This morning we had a decent sized malware campaign start across our servers. There wasn’t much to the actual body of the message with it just being some small plain text. The subject just mentions a...
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Fix in iOS 8.2: Update to original post dated 12/10/14
Apple launched iOS 8.2 Monday, March 9th, after extensive beta testing. The most recent beta version of Apple’s mobile operating system was confirmed to have corrected the time zone issue frustrating...
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Repairing Exchange Calendar Events Altered by GMT Bug
With the release of iOS 8.2, Apple fixed the “GMT bug” that caused dual time zones to display in Calendar events. It is possible to edit and fix your individual calendar events that were displaying...
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Lookout for Fake Outlook Messages
Yesterday we began seeing a malware campaign posing as a message from “Microsoft Outlook”. The messages pose as a notification to the user that they have exceeded their mailbox storage limit. They...
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