Spammers continue to target popular sites

2010 July 19
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Security Labs researchers from McAfee (R-sharing of Internet security company McAfee) said they had found a clear trend in popular sites like Amazon, Ebay, Youtube, WordPress, Wikipedia, GoDaddy eventful. com was constantly exploited by hackers. The hoax e had a look and feel of an authentic message from one of the most famous places. These scam e-mail was sent so that seemed reliable first point of view. All users of the new site can be easily fooled by such messages on the user decides about his appearance. In addition, appearances can be misleading and that hackers have made use of by creating fake emails from established sites. In addition, there was a perfect example of the first week in July 2010 and who supports them by the researchers. A number of spam calls on users to verify their accounts by clicking on a Wikipedia link that seemed to have come from the authentic site of Wikipedia. The spam emails as texts that “person in the IP address 112 .. 135 3rd 205 is registered in the account” iamjustsendingthisleter “with this e-mail address in the English Wikipedia, where the IP address matched with the system Spam (bot), and Wikipedia account actually named beneficiary’s account spam. Security experts said that HTML e-mails phishing, links in e-mails seemed to take services in confidence, but when you click, but that users are taken to malicious websites that hackers had been infused with all sorts of dubious Content ads as harmful pills and JavaScript code. Because of the harmful type of spam, security experts recommend that users navigate to pages of famous through links in junk mail and use must be pre-marked links to websites for individual use. Experts say that many previews web link on the status of many client or browser security does not provide security as characters in the URL can be replaced by similar characters that look identical at first glance.

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