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American Airlines warns of scam emails

09

Jan

2012

American Airlines has posted online several examples of scam emails, claiming to be from the airline in an effort to help protect their customers from falling victim to the scam.The phishing attack which has been active as recently as November 2011 was designed to con American Airlines customers into surrendering their personal information and passwords.One […]

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Cutwail Spam Campaigns Lure Users to Blackhole Exploit Kit

02

Dec

2011

Over the past few days the Cutwail botnet has been sending out malicious spam campaigns with a variety of themes such as airline ticket orders, Automated Clearing House (ACH), Facebook notification, and scanned document. These campaigns do not have malware attachments, instead the payload is delivered via links to malicious code hosted on the web. […]

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Phony Delta, American Airlines itineraries lead to malware

17

Nov

2011

A malware-email outbreak in the past 24 hours uses phony Delta airline itineraries to entice users to click on the embedded links. The social engineering of an attack such as this is very effective – particularly since the email looks very authentic: If you are planning a trip then you this will look all wrong […]

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