| Pig of a spam outcome! |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Thursday, 14 May 2009 | |
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Symantec says that health related spam samples had been observed with messages talking about medicines that could be used to fight the flu, and providing URLs to various pharmacy sites. It says that, in one example, potential victims were sent an email with a malicious PDF attachment that promised to answer questions about the Swine Flu. It detected the malicious PDF file as Bloodhound.Exploit.6 and the dropped malicious file contained in the PDF as InfoStealer. According to Symantec, while it remains to be seen whether swine flu spam will result in a swine flu spam pandemic, “history tells us that current event spam campaigns will continue in an effort to lure victims and distribute spam messages.” “It should also be noted that spammers recently used the Italian earthquake in their messages. As always, users should be careful before opening any attachments or clicking on URL links.” Overall, Symantec says spam volumes continue to creep back up to normal, and are currently sitting at 94 percent of their pre-McColo levels, adding that spam categories continue to fluctuate month to month with leisure and Internet spam decreasing eight and seven percent respectively, and financial spam in-creasing by six percent. CONTINUED page 2 |
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