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Holiday e-cards spread more than just holiday cheer

December 18th, 2008 by Shara Grifenhagen | Category: Spam Favorites | View Comments

Cousin Kimmy just sent me a link to a Hallmark holiday e-card. How sweet!
…wait a minute…
I don’t think it’s really from Hallmark.
…wait a minute…
I don’t even have a cousin Kimmy!
Malicious code writers are at it again this holiday season. The latest trend is a plain text or very simple email that looks like it has [...]

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Chinese E-card Blended Threat Malware

October 30th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Email Security, Spam Favorites, Zombies/Botnets | View Comments

In case you thought all the e-card malware was sent in English or Russian, of course other nations have their say as well. Here is an example of a recent outbreak of Chinese e-card messages that Arik from the spam analysis team shared with me. This is considered a “blended threat,” that is an email [...]

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