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But what if your trusted news delivery mechanism is the bad guys new delivery malware delivery mechanism? By imitating legitimate emails, criminals have built up a network of more than 250,000 spam-sending machines. Up until 2:12 AM today CNN had been the primary target, and we received CNN Alerts, at rates peaking as high as a dozen per minute. At 2:12 AM, the CNN campaign stopped.
Beginning at 3:15 AM today, August 13th, the UAB Spam Data Mine began receiving emails with news headlines in them that claimed to be from MSNBC. We're now receiving several each minute, with more than 500 archived already this morning. Here's the first one we received:
Beginning at 3:15 AM today, August 13th, the UAB Spam Data Mine began receiving emails with news headlines in them that claimed to be from MSNBC. We're now receiving several each minute, with more than 500 archived already this morning. Here's the first one we received:















