Facebook Now the Subject of New Malware Attack

Reading Time: 3 minutesEarlier this month, the Comodo Threat Research Lab team identified a new malware attack targeted specifically at businesses and consumers who might use WhatsApp.  As part of a random phishing campaign, cybercriminals were sending fake emails representing the information as official WhatsApp content to spread malware when the attached “message” was clicked on.Now, researchers at the Threat Research Lab have identified a very similar phishing campaign targeted at businesses and consumers who use Facebook – most likely designed by the same cyber criminals who developed the WhatsApp

Comodo Opened its First Office in the Heart of Silicon Valley

Reading Time: 2 minutesComodo, a global innovator and developer of cybersecurity solutions, announced that it has opened its first office in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Santa Clara, California.The new location will house Comodo’s expanded enterprise product management and product marketing team in the state-of-the-art TechMart building, which neighbors Levi’s Stadium and the Santa Clara Convention Center.The new Silicon Valley office will be headed up by John Peterson, who recently joined Comodo as vice president of Enterprise Product Management and Product Marketing with an executive leadership background from Zscaler,

Polish idioms translated literally into English and how to use them

„I know this one!” I shouted really excited in my Portuguese class the other week. We were learning different idioms and the teacher asked what we think sem pés nem cabeça. It literally means without feet or a head and is used for something that doesn’t make much sense. I am from Poland and in Polish we would say something really similar in the same situation: nie ma rąk ani nóg – it doesn’t have arms or legs.Idioms are one of the main reasons why translation is so difficult. Often times,

Whatsup Subject of New Malware Attack | Comodo Antivirus

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Comodo Antispam Labs (CASL) team has identified a new malware attack targeted specifically at businesses and consumers who might use WhatsApp, a multi-platform mobile phone messaging service that uses your phone’s Internet connection to chat with and call other WhatsApp users.As part of a random phishing campaign, cybercriminals are sending fake emails representing the information as official WhatsApp content to spread malware when the “message” is clicked on.The emails are being sent from a rogue email address, disguised with an umbrella branding “WhatsApp,” but if users

Comodo Continues to Rank Number One Globally in Digital Certificate

Reading Time: 2 minutesSince Symantec was dethroned by Comodo in February 2015, Comodo has continued to further expand its market share leadership, according to new data from w3techs.com,. This significant market share move was even predicted by w3techs.com in the February data when it stated “Comodo’s market share is likely to grow further, as it is particularly popular among new sites.”According to w3techs.com’s December data, Comodo has an SSL certificate authority market share of 40.7% (as of Jan 1). For 11 consecutive months, Comodo has maintained its number one market

Email Content of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Comodo Antispam Labs (CASL) team has identified a new regional phishing threat, targeted specifically at the citizens of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in the United Kingdom.The spoofed email is from a Richmond.co.uk address, designed to try and steal vendor numbers and specific email addresses, convincing unsuspecting victims that they will receive a “remittance advice” should they respond.  It also triggers a set of malware that would be activated, should the unsuspecting victims click on the link.The Comodo Antispam Labs team identified the phishing

Comodo Announces Code Signing With Comodo Certificate Manager 5.3

Reading Time: 2 minutesManaging all your digital certificates can be a daunting task for businesses and mistakes are bound to happen due to human error when managing them manually, which is why IT security experts universally, and strongly, recommend automated certificate managers.No IT administrator wants to lay awake at night wondering if their digital certificates are maintained, optimized and secure, which is why manual digital certificate key management is no longer practical.Comodo Certificate Manager (CCM) was developed to solve this problem: helping companies with the end to end lifecycle management

Cyber Thieves Target Pandora Jewelers with New Phishing Email

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Comodo Antispam Labs (CASL) team has identified a malware attack targeted specifically at businesses and consumers who make purchases from Pandora Jewelers, an international Danish jewelry manufacturer and retailer known for its customizable charm bracelets, rings and necklaces.E-mail phishing activity rises dramatically as the holiday season is upon us – and Pandora Jewelers is a new phishing target, using language that capitalizes on the public’s desire for an extreme sale.  The email is designed to capture credit card and financial information from business or consumers who

File Infectors vs Comodo Auto-Containment

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe security engineers and IT experts from the Comodo Antivirus Labs are constantly analyzing the thousands of malware families that are trying to cause destruction and chaos to IT infrastructures large and small – and ensuring the customers of Comodo stay protected and secure from these malware families.In an ongoing series of posts here at blogs.comodo.com, the security experts at Comodo will look at a specific malware family and stack it up against Comodo’s advanced  endpoint protection and containment technology, and talk about the how why Comodo’s

New Malware Attack Targets UK Mail Customers

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Comodo Antispam Labs (CASL) team has identified a malware attack targeted specifically at businesses and consumers who may use UK Mail, the United Kingdom’s largest independent postal operator.As part of a random phishing campaign, the fake emails are being sent from the address no-reply@ukmail.com – which to a business or consumer could appear to be a legitimate email address, but it is not.The email is designed to trigger the spread of malware and infect computers, workstations and mobile devices that access the email – grabbing the