Saturday, September 08, 2007

Latest Spambots Attack Blogs

Just the latest varient in the ongoing spambot wars.

BBC Tech News


"The criminals responsible for this spam campaign are experts at exploiting social engineering to propagate their botnets," said Bradley Anstis from security firm Marshal.

The spam messages have been changed to capitalise on news events and the viral payload has been updated many times to fool anti-virus programs.

Just don't click on - errr, umm, interesting things - that don't belong in the blog.

TRex

1 comment:

TRex said...

It appears the comments can look legit, but have links that don't go to good places. Check the links before following them.

And keep your antivirus up to date.

TRex