Halloween is always a fun holiday for cybercriminals. Spam, malware, phishing…the works. The Commtouch Labs reported on several different Halloween schemes this season.
One spam attack surfaced in multiple languages. The subjects read like this:
… reduzierte preise fuer halloween! programme fuer pc & mac
… reduction des prix de l’halloween! programmes pour pc et mac
… prezzi piu [...]
Spammers and spyware operators are trying the luck of the Irish to get some more unsuspecting folks into their web. Here’s the latest St. Patty’s day ecard spam outbreak shared with me by our global detection center. Click the link and if you are based in the US you will have some spyware downloaded to [...]
Thought we were done with ecards? Not yet! Just in from our detection center: a new blended threat with emails in Russian and English, purporting to be a postcard from a friend from the popular postcard site postcard.ru, but actually links to a site that tries to download an .exe file to the user’s computer. [...]
