Spam campaigns based on the Blackhole Exploit Kit send messages that contain links to compromised legitimate websites, which serve hidden iframes and redirections that exploit vulnerabilities across operating systems–from Android to Windows. Spam themes we have seen vary rapidly and are disguised to appear as legitimate messages from familiar services. Campaigns spoofing Facebook, LinkedIn, American Read more…
Tags: Blackhole Exploit Kit, spam
Mother’s Day is normally celebrated by people to express their love for their mothers. We sometimes buy them special gifts such as watches, antiques, greeting cards, or flowers. Spammers also celebrate Mother’s Day, but with a different goal in mind. As always, spammers like to take advantage of special occasions and festivals. Currently we see Read more…
Tags: Mother’s day spam, spam
Name any famous or popular website, they all seem to have become the prime targets on spammers lists. Researchers at McAfee Labs have seen an increasing trend wherein famous websites like Amazon, Ebay, Youtube, WordPress, Wikipedia, Godaddy, Eventful.com, and many more are abused by spammers to provide a legitimate appearance for the email and ultimately Read more…
Curious to know what [1xd].htm links we are talking about? Here’s the observed trend and an analysis of the major SPAM outbreak that happened recently. It looks like spammers have hijacked domains with good reputation and are using them as a bait to spread SPAM. These types of mail have .htm links where the top Read more…
We had earlier blogged about spammers abusing different social networking websites and taking full advantage to host their spam on them. Recently researchers at McAfee Labs came across a new spam campaign in which yet another big social networking website, YouTube, is being abused. As we know, YouTube is a video sharing website on which Read more…
“FREE” is by far the most commonly used term in spam mails. The word free is such a striking term that any layman, without the knowledge of these tricks of the trade, can get into the trap of cloaked mails sent by the spammers. Here are a couple of the most often used sentences in Read more…
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