How ironic - malware distributors are using the vulnerabilities inherent in IE (and other browsers) to distribute malware purporting to be an Internet Explorer update!
The spammers did a few things to make the message appear to be legitimately from Microsoft, spoofing a Microsoft from address, and copy-pasting the MSN text into the bottom. Of course, [...]
You may recall that we wrote about spammers who used Microsoft hotmail content within the source of their messages, hidden from the reader (except for those techies who right-click & hit “view source”). Well, I spammers must have liked the results and wanted to take it a step further. The latest trick is to put [...]
Here’s a cute one our Detection Center just sent over - a traditional 419 scam in the guise of a lottery prize, sent from a scammer pretending to be… none other than Yahoo/MSN. Haven’t they heard that the deal isn’t finalized yet?!
