Posts Tagged ‘unsolicited email’

Think About Your Career and the Outcome!

Jun

2012

Last week I was jolted with a mail that says: My first reaction was: “Did I ever interview or converse with any such person? Then why am I receiving this email?”. I immediately began analyzing the email and found that it is nothing but a variant of a Hitman spam which tries to threaten the user […]

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Trojan.Milicenso: A Paper Salesman’s Dream Come True

Jun

2012

Over the past two weeks, an outbreak of Trojan.Milicenso has resulted in multiple reports of massive print jobs being sent to print servers, printing garbage characters until the printer runs out of paper. Our telemetry data has shown the worst hit regions were the US and India followed by regions in Europe and South America. […]

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LinkedIn spam leads to pump-and-dump stock scam

Jun

2012

We used to see a lot of pump-and-dump stock spam. Pump-and-dump stock manipulation works like this: Spammers purchase stock in companies trading at very low levels, at a cheap price The spammers artificially inflate the stock’s price by encouraging others to purchase more (often by spamming “good news” about the company to others). They then […]

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