Early Hearts’ Day Presents from Spammers

February has already begun, which means Valentine’s Day is close at hand. As usual, spammers will definitely hype up their malicious activities. It is only the first day of the so-called “love month” but we have already seen at least two spam samples leveraging one of the most-celebrated special occasions when people flock to websites that advertise gifts they can give to their loved ones.

These spammed messages contained links that led users to a fake gift card promotion site and a site that advertised and sold replica watches, respectively.

Every special occasion and/or holiday is, in today’s threat-laden Internet landscape, not just a time for people to celebrate but also a time for spammers to scam unwitting users with their devious scams, as evidenced by these previous blog entries:

Haiti Spam Leads to New Malware
Phishers Target AOL IM Users
Spam Attack Against the U.S. Defense Department Exploits an Adobe Vulnerability

Spammed messages come in many forms and with varying payloads, some redirect users to sites that sell anything and everything under the sun, most especially pharmaceutical and replica items; some lead to (continue reading...)