Tuesday, October 7, 2008

O.J. Simpson Guilty Verdict Could Lead To Malicious Spam

IT security company MX Logic warns in its blog about possible spam related to the OJ Simpson guilty verdict from last week.

"It appears that some search engines are already being poisoned with links to malicious video downloads based off of certain search criteria related to the verdict. It is typical for these types of tactics to start bleeding into email as well", writes Sam Masiello, vice president of information security at MX Logic.

Similar to the CNN and MSNBC campaigns from August it is likely that these spam emails will use a lure to an online video to trick users into visiting malicious web sites that download alleged video codecs that are actually malware.

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