Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Spam spike in progress

<A HREF="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135679-pg,1/article.html">A massive spam blast</A> that started Tuesday is still in progress and shows no sign of abating, a security company said. "The scale of this stock pump-and-dump spam campaign is like nothing we've seen before," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos PLC.

Similar to countless other email campaigns in both delivery method and intent--the message arrives as a PDF file and baits the scam by touting quick money to be made on an up-and-coming, if completely unknown, stock.

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