Stock Spam 2.0 - Forbes.com
Posted in Internet, technology by Mark on June 25th, 2007

While trying to catch up on my SpamAssassin mailing list reading, I found this tidbit from Wednesday. Just wonderful …

The world’s e-mail in-boxes are discovering a new, smarter form of stock spam. According to the e-mail security firm Ironport, billions of junk e-mails were sent Wednesday with a professional-looking .pdf attachment, a new tactic in the ongoing spam wars that eluded spam filters and was designed to pump the share price of Talktech Telemedia, a German penny stock on the Frankfurt exchange.

Stock Spam 2.0 - Forbes.com

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One Response to “Stock Spam 2.0 - Forbes.com”

  1. Scott June 25th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    I noticed that Sophos was picking this up last week, as well. Their new blog is an interesting read:

    http://sophos.com/security/blog/2007/06/236.html

    Spammers are an inventive bunch, aren’t they!

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