In February, spammers continued to use the news of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent earthquake in Chile as another vector to utilize.
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Spam and Phishing Landscape: March 2010
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Spam about diet or weight loss plans have been around for ages now, mostly spreading through email. However, spammed messages recently made their rounds on Twitter, compromising unwitting users’ accounts and spreading via these infected accounts. Compromised Twitter accounts post Tweets that tell their followers to click the shortened link to try out a new diet/weight loss plan.
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Diet Twitter Spam (on the) Run
The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, Canada, from February 12-28. With more than 82 countries participating and millions across the globe catching day-to-day action, it was sadly quite obvious that we would see spam attacks centered on this event.
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Late Dash by Spammers for 2010 Winter Olympics
A new wave of spammed messages posing as mail service notifications targeted antivirus companies , including Trend Micro . These messages ask the receivers to update their mailbox settings by opening and executing the attachment. The two samples above TrendLabs obtained were sent to domains that belonged to Trend Micro.
The biggest news flashes for the last 48 hours involve reports of the devastating earthquake that struck near the coast of Chile, along with the tsunami threat to the Pacific region.
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Spammers Rumbling as Chile Earthquake Strikes
How many social network accounts do you have? How much time do you spend on your network content and application updates?
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Daily Homework – Log in to Your Social Network Account
One of the world’s biggest automakers has recently been in the headlines because of necessary recalls. Not only the affected vehicle owners, but people in general across the globe are curious and concerned about this issue.
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Spammers go "Full Throttle" on Auto Recalls
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Trend Micro’s Web Reputation Services (WRS) Operations Team recently received a phishing email claiming to be from Blogger (see Figure 1), a free blog publishing tool from Google .
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Phishers Target “Bloggers”
Trend Micro security experts have not seen pump-and-dump spam campaigns in a fairly long time.
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Pump-and-Dump Spam Makes a Comeback on Skype
In the month of January, Symantec reported a drop in .cn spam . This was due to changes in the domain registration process introduced by CNNIC.
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The .ru Substitutions for .cn Domains