Commtouch tracks 500% surge in email malware over last week

With the kids on holiday from school and a lot of people away this month, you'd expect things to be quiet on the malware front, but Israel's Commtouch is reporting a massive 500% surge in e-mail-delivered malware over the last week.

According to Commtouch director Avi Turiel, one of the lynchpins of this surging email malware campaign is the infamous UPS `you have a parcel' message, pushing email malware levels to around 5.5 times the normal weekly level seen in previous weeks, and emulating a surge that the web and messaging security firm tracked in March of this year.

Interestingly, Turiel reports that there are now several variants of the UPS malware email, with a range of subjects, including:

USPS Attention 060532
USPS: DELIVER CONFIRMATION – FAILED 17592718
USPS id. 182407
USPS DELIVERY CONFIRMATION 7264145
From USPS 4009717
Your USPS id. 44531036
USPS ATTENTION 44123265