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Article: Red Condor Blocks New Types of Spam in Attachments.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- August 2, 2007
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ROHNERT PARK, Calif. -- Red Condor announced it is successfully blocking two new spam campaigns impacting email users. It has blocked more than 2-million spam emails since a campaign was identified in late June to embed advertisements in attached Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. And since late July, it has blocked more than 75,000 emails from a new campaign that embeds ads in zipped (compressed) Microsoft Excel documents. In both cases, Red Condor's security experts detected the campaigns when they were launched and quickly put new filters in place for their clients.
"Spammers have discovered that embedding images in attachments gets malicious email ...