Is there any holiday spammers and malware writers won’t celebrate? This just in from our detection center - blended threat emails along a July 4 Independence Day theme, with Subjects like “Happy July 4″ and content… well see for yourself in the example below:
Don’t click on links in emails like this, folks… guaranteed to turn [...]
Similar to earlier holiday messages, malware distributors are taking advantage of the atmosphere of April Fools’ Day to send “jokes” linking to malware sites. The messages are short text messages, with a hyperlink to a web site hosted at an IP address (usually indicative of a zombie outbreak).
Subject lines include:
All Fools’ Day
April Fools’ Day
Doh! All’s [...]
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 [...]
