Opportunistic scammers and spammers are actively exploiting the swine flu buzz across the web by spamvertising links to pharmaceutical scams, and bogus ‘Swine Flu Survival Guides’ using search engine optimization of typosquatted domains related to the outbreak.
The event-based social engineering campaign is similar to the recent fake ‘Conficker infection alerts‘, the bogus Conficker removal tools pushed through SEO practices, and the timely spam campaign serving malware as a fake Microsoft patch Tuesday message. More at; http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3233
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EXPERIENCE IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO A MAN BUT IT IS WHAT A MAN DOES WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM
The event-based social engineering campaign is similar to the recent fake ‘Conficker infection alerts‘, the bogus Conficker removal tools pushed through SEO practices, and the timely spam campaign serving malware as a fake Microsoft patch Tuesday message. More at; http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3233
EXPERIENCE IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO A MAN BUT IT IS WHAT A MAN DOES WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM