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Spam: Fake CNN spam continues after mutating
August 12, 2008 by Shanmuga
Filed under Spam
"According to MX Logic, spam posing as CNN.com Top 10 lists peaked at close to 11 million messages per hour early Thursday, but remained at high volumes throughout the day Friday. The Colorado security vendor said it had been tracking an average of 8 million messages per hour since midnight.
Where the messages once trumpeted "CNN .com Daily Top 10" in the subject heading and linked to a single filename on malware-hosting sites, now the spam sports a subject reading "CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert" and uses a variety of filenames in the malicious URL. " - Content courtesy of Techworld.com - Fake-CNN spam continues after mutating
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