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Spam catches swine flu
Jake Widman
Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:43
The subjects reported by McAfee so far include "First US swine flu victims," "Swine flu in USA," and, for the celebrity-obsessed, "Salma Hayek caught swine flu!" and "Madonna caught swine flu!"
McAfee also reports that domain name registrations based on "swine" have increased thirtyfold.
That observation is confirmed by a report from security vendor F-Secure.
Just last weekend, F-Secure reports, new registrations included avoidswineflu.com, preventswineflu.com, swineflurecovery.org, and swineflu2010.us. (That's just four out of the 278 on F-Secure's list .)
According to F-Secure, none of the sites have yet been reported to contain malware.
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