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Increase in use of PDFs for spam

19
May
2011

In recently weeks, I have noticed an increase in the use of PDF files for spam. Instead of uploading an HTML page using a compromised account, as seen shown in a previous post “Hundreds of College and Government websites still redirecting to fake stores“, spammers are instead uploading PDF files. My guess for their motivation, […]

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Spam and Phishing Landscape: May 2011

18
May
2011

The unexpected raid and resulting death of Osama Bin Laden shocked the world. As always, spammers were quick to jump on this headline and send a variety of spam messages leveraging the event. The “Fallout from the Death of Osama Bin Laden” section includes samples of some of the spam monitored in different languages. The […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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