| Spammers exploit Michael Jackson death |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Monday, 13 July 2009 | |
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The latest spam report from Symantec shows that, generally, spam volumes in June continued to fluctuate but averaged approximately 90 percent of all email messages. Symantec reports that the recent death of Michael Jackson, and the subsequent public interest combined with the Fourth of July holiday (in the US) showed that spammers were willing to use any notable event as a cover to distribute their messages. “Various image spam obfuscation techniques that have recently been observed demonstrated that spammers continue to invest in this particular spam threat,” reports Symantec. According to Symantec, another trend observed in June was that of a mass-mailing worm in fake Twitter account invites. Symantec says that Twitter was used as bait to lure innocent victims into a phishing trap. CONTINUED page 2 |
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