McAfee Labs Messaging Security recently observed a spam campaign based on the Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas fertilizer plant explosion. The messages take advantage of our interest in these tragic events to lure victims to malware and exploits. Last week my colleague Paras Gupta blogged about the use of the Blackhole exploit kit to […]
This fake 123Greetings.com spam actually delivers malware instead, hosted on remindingwands.org: Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:34:21 +0200 From: “123Greetings.com” [[email protected]] Subject: New e-card for you. Vanna [email protected] has just sent you an ecard from 123Greetings.com You can view it by clicking here: http://www.123greetings.com/send/view/999095: Thanks to our new tracking feature, you can […]
This Amazon order confirmation email is a fake. Every link leads to malware. Every link (there are 8 in this example – similar to this attack) leads to a different compromised WordPress site. And they all seem to be using one of the most common WordPress theme directory – check out the links: http://maximconsulting.us/wp-content/themes/twentyten/—e.html http://hampsteadelectrician.com/wp-content/themes/twentyten/—e.html […]
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