April 3 cannot come soon enough for those who are eager to get their hands on the iPad. If anything, Apple’s recent announcement that the gadget will soon be available in the United States only added to the excitement over the much-talked-about gadget. Unfortunately, spammers are using the current enthusiasm over the iPad to their [...]
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iPad Giveaway Gives Users’ Identities Away
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 [...]
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Diet Twitter Spam (on the) Run
Text scams are increasingly becoming common again due to the forthcoming Philippine national and local elections, as political campaigns take to rampant text messaging for faster political mobilization. Earlier, I received a text message with the following content:
May GOD bountifuly bles u & ur family. Have a blissful day Fr Frends of UNI-MAD Party List, [...]
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Text Spam and Text Scams
Spammers are clearly becoming more and more creative as they try new ways to bypass our anti-spam filters. Just recently, we received a spammed message disguised as a spam quarantine notification message from a competitor.
To the untrained eye, the email looks quite convincing. However, closer inspection of the message properties reveals that while the email [...]
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Spam Quarantine Notification = Spam
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 file attachment does not contain any mailbox [...]
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Spammers Target Antivirus Companies
