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Spammers Jump On Bird Flu Bandwagon |
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ikeb writes "By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Spammers are playing off avian flu fears to shill pharmaceuticals and pitch stocks, a security firm said Wednesday.
U.K.-based Sophos warned users that its honeypots -- purposefully unprotected PCs set up to trap spam samples -- have been capturing a rising number of messages peddling Tamiflu, the Roche-made drug that reduces symptoms of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
One spam example that Sophos cited starts out Bird flu case discovered in the USA to stoke fears and prod people into buying Tamiflu from a Web site. The statement's not true; no confirmed cases of the avian flu have yet been found in the United States.
Full article....
Note: Expect Phishing attacks to latch on to the avian flu pandemic as well.
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