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Gaddafi Death Rumours Sure to Spark Spam

20

Oct

2011

Websense ThreatSeeker® Network has been tracking an ongoing spam campaign relating to reports of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's death. We have been monitoring related spam campaigns about Gaddafi for a while now, and the recent rumours of his death as stated here on Reuters seem to have raised the bar a little with an influx of such spam. […]

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NHS Direct Twitter account compromised by Acai Berry diet spammers

17

Oct

2011

NHS Direct, the UK helpline which provides expert health advice via the telephone and internet, has had its Twitter account taken over by spammers promoting an Acai Berry diet. At 10:40pm UK time on Sunday night, the NHS Direct Twitter account posted the following message: Are you wanting to lose some weight? i highly suggest […]

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A Refresher on Spam and Exploits

13

Oct

2011

Lately, we have been seeing a renewed increase in volume of spam attacks that utilizes an exploit kit – specifically, the BlackHole exploit kit – to trigger a malicious payload. Specifically, we have seen this in the latest slew of Automated Clearing House (ACH) spam, and the more recent spam run related to Steve Jobs’ […]

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