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Video of Gadhafi’s Death Being Used for Spam

27
Oct
2011

We’ve been seeing a particular social engineering lure in spam runs in the past, where spammers leverage the death of a known celebrity or political figure. Recent examples of this include the death of Steve Jobs, and Amy Winehouse. In this spam run using Gadhafi’s death, however, a more compelling lure is being used to […]

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Spammers Leverage Amy Winehouse’s Death to Send Virus

26
Jul
2011

The five-time Grammy award winner Amy Winehouse was found dead in London on July 23rd. Symantec has already observed spammers who are trying to capitalize on related news headlines by sending out malicious threats less than a day after the news was released. The two samples given below are examples that we have observed. These […]

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