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Spammers Targeting Oklahoma Tornado Victims

23

May

2013

Natural disasters, like tornadoes and earthquakes, are quite common in the United States of America. Unfortunately, the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore experienced a violent tornado on Monday, May 20, that sadly resulted in dozens of casualties. Spammers take advantage of natural disasters with luring scams and Symantec Security Response has started to observe spam […]

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Beware of Emails Asking You to ‘Confirm your account on Facebook’

08

Sep

2012

Facebook is no stranger to spam. Just the fact that almost a billion people on the planet have a Facebook account makes it a perfect medium for scammers to exploit. They just blast out their bogus Facebook messages and notifications to as many emails as they can, and there is a good chance they will […]

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A Fresh Example of a Blackhole Spam

15

Jun

2012

My spam honeypots yesterday yielded a nice example of a spam attack being used to lure people to servers hosting the infamous Blackhole exploit kit, which we've blogged about several times in the last six months or so. The spam arrived the evening before. Here's how it looked: Clicking on one of the links took […]

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