By now you know not to believe those emails promising overnight wealth with very little effort – right? Seriously.
These spam campaigns apparently still attract enough clickers. The subjects in a recent outbreak were typically bold and the emails featured short one-liners promising work-from-home riches.
The clever touch was providing a link that exploits redirect functionality supported [...]
The recent unrest in the Middle East has become fodder for spammers looking to entice unknowing victims into downloading nasty malware. As we’ve seen in previous outbreaks, spammers use current events (e.g., the financial crisis, elections, major international events) to entice recipients. By masking the origin and tricking users into believing they are legitimate sources, [...]
After distributing outlandish headlines for months, malware distributors have taken the next logical step and are starting to package them together in email newsletters, more specifically, pretending to be “CNN Daily Top 10″ headline email newsletters. Here is a sample email:
Each enticing headline in the message links to a malware site, not to CNN, [...]
