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Swine Flu Hits Inboxes

Răzvan LIVINTZ

April 29, 2009

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Swine Flu Hits Inboxes

“Swine flu in Hollywood!”, “Salma Hayek caught swine flu!”,
“US swine flu statistics”, “First US swine flu victims!”, “Will swine flu
attack USA?”, “Madonna caught swine flu!”, “NY Victims of swine flu”, “Swine
flu worldwide” are just some examples of those titles that should arouse the
interest of the recipients, as you can see in the screenshots below.

 

Swine Flu hits Inboxes
Swine flu
Swine Flu
Swine Flu Spam

 

Behind them, nothing else than a single line plain text
messages and a link directing to an alleged China registered Web page, which,
in fact, opens a .com Web site selling drugs, as you can see below.

Swine Flu

“This is one of the all-time favorite spamming schemes – exploiting
breaking news or hot topics that fuel curiosity as a social engineering
technique. As the situation will probably escalate, we expect to see an
increase of the spam amount revolving around this subject in the weeks to
come”, said Vlad V

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Răzvan LIVINTZ

I rediscovered "all that technical jazz" with the E-Threat Analysis Team at Bitdefender, the creator of one of the industry's most effective lines of internationally certified security software.

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