Humpty Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 But what if your trusted news delivery mechanism is the bad guys new delivery malware delivery mechanism? By imitating legitimate emails, criminals have built up a network of more than 250,000 spam-sending machines. Up until 2:12 AM today CNN had been the primary target, and we received CNN Alerts, at rates peaking as high as a dozen per minute. At 2:12 AM, the CNN campaign stopped. Beginning at 3:15 AM today, August 13th, the UAB Spam Data Mine began receiving emails with news headlines in them that claimed to be from MSNBC. We're now receiving several each minute, with more than 500 archived already this morning. Here's the first one we received: Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted August 13, 2008 Moderators Share Posted August 13, 2008 Just got mine Humpty. I've said it before, some poor soul will open it. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I haven't gotten junk mail in at least 2 years. Probably longer. Zero junk mail. Zero spam. I feel so left out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted August 13, 2008 Moderators Share Posted August 13, 2008 Send me your email address, and I'll forward it on Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Nooooo thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I received a few and reported it to hpHosts: http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?...d=a&start=9 Also: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4879 "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 ALERT: malvertizements utilizing computer clipboards (copy and paste). An interesting comment was posted to my blog today - the commentator said: "...I had my clipboard go crazy last night, and I knew right away, because I write clipboard software (ClipMate) and so I was able to "hear" the clipboard events. This thing was posting more than once a second - overwriting the clipboard with their silly URL. I think they hope that people inadvertently paste it into blog posts, comments (like this one), e-mail, and such. I have posted my findings here: http://www.thornsoft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3567" Another person complains of the clipboard problem - you can see the discussion here: http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php...48&p=477521 And here, somebody who accidentally pasted a fraudware URL into a comment: http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.a...aram=Page%3D983 http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archi...09/1644062.aspx "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted August 16, 2008 Moderators Share Posted August 16, 2008 Things seem a bit hot out there at the moment. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTskifreak Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 I've gotten both!!! Holy crap! AJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTskifreak Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Sorry for the double post... but I think I found the next big spam email. AJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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