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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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Hotmail fights back against hacked email accounts

15

Jul

2011

Microsoft has announced a new feature for Hotmail users that should help in the fight against email fraudsters and spammers. It wouldn’t surprise me if many of us haven’t received an email which appears to come from a friend, but actually contains a bogus cry for help claiming they are stranded in a foreign country […]

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Avoiding Facebook phishing

13

May

2011

The page below was flagged by Commtouch’s GlobalView URL Filtering as a phishing page yesterday. While we admire the authentic look of the page, there are several pointers that give this away as a phishing site (genuine Facebook login page is provided at the bottom of the post for comparison). The very idea – “you […]

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