Don’t Give Spammers a Reason to Be Thankful
- Friday, November 27, 2009, 1:28
- Threat Research
- 2 views
Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season in the United States, the top spam-sending country in the world. The holiday season ushers sales and big discounts for users. Unfortunately, however, this also means that spammers will be rushing to offer consumers bogus promos and discounts. Seems even cybercriminals have something to be thankful for, too.
Trend Micro analysts received Thanksgiving-related spam samples. The spammed messages offered users who log in to their sites US$500 worth of “grocery vouchers.” The sites were hosted on different domains that, upon further analysis, have already been blacklisted though they have only recently been created.
Users who are tricked into clicking any of the URLs in the spammed messages landed on sites where they are asked to give out personal information like email addresses, complete names, addresses, and phone numbers, which, as you may already know, may be used for other malicious activities later on or sold in underground forums.
Though it is true that legitimate companies do promote discounts and other special offers online, not everyone who sends promotional offers has good intentions. In fact, most of them don’t. Going into business is, after all, all about one thing alone—making money. Bear in mind that legitimate online offers only send out information on promotions and special offers to
...Read the original story
