May was a slow month for e-mail based malware, but the cyber criminals are certainly making up for their earlier decline now!

We're currently receiving malware in at least five separate spam campaigns, with almost all of them being sent for the primary purpose of stealing login credentials.

The current campaign causing the most concern for us is the Microsoft Outlook Critical Update spam. This campaign comes in a very Official-looking email using one of these subject lines:

Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook
Install Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook
Install Update for Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook Critical Update
Microsoft Outlook Update
Update for Microsoft Outlook

Continued @ CyberCrime & Doing Time Blog