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'Canadian Pharmacy' Scam Comes Via Google Maps

Internet users have been receiving spam emails alerting them that someone has sent them a Google Map link. In the end it turns out to be another Canadian Pharmacy scam that tries to attract unsuspecting victims into purchasing miracle medication. Mxlabs discovered that the emails all have the same general structu...

26 September 2011
07:18 GMT

Russian Authorities Investigate Alleged Spamit Boss

Moscow police is investigating a man believed to be the mastermind behind the Spamit rogue pharmacy affiliate program, which closed down at the beginning of this month."Because of the numerous negative events happened last year and the risen attention to our affiliate program we’ve decided to stop accepting the...

28 October 2010
09:36 GMT

Spammers Hacked Machines from Microsoft's Network

Microsoft confirmed that two misconfigured servers located on its network were compromised and abused by a gang of Canadian pharmacy spammers.The incident was reported by The Register two days ago, after receiving information from a California-based security researcher named Ronald F. Guilmette, who tracks spam opera...

14 October 2010
05:32 GMT

Spammers Adopt Phishing Techniques

Security researchers from German antivirus vendor Avira warn of new pharma spam campaign, which produces emails displaying characteristics normally associated with phishing attacks. "In the recent past we saw emails looking like phishing mails, which were spam though actually. The spammers tried to make them look as ...

17 August 2010
03:30 GMT

Pharma Spammers Abuse Legit Websites

Security researchers warn that Canadian Pharmacy spammers are abusing legit websites in their latest campaigns. The junk emails link to simple HTML redirect scripts hosted in the root directory of sites that have been compromised."We’re currently seeing a wave of fake pharma spam emails which do not directly ad...

28 July 2010
04:47 GMT

2010 FIFA World Cup Wikipedia Page Defaced Repeatedly

Security researchers from Sophos warn that the 2010 FIFA World Cup page on Wikipedia has been defaced today to include a big link directing users to pharmacy spam. It seems that Wikipedia is struggling to prevent spammers from editing the page, which so far has been modified several times.The numbers are still coming...

14 July 2010
06:57 GMT

Spam Emails Masquerade as ICANN Notifications

A spam campaign currently in circulation attempts to scare users into clicking on malicious links by claiming that their domain name has been suspended by ICANN. Victims are exploited and eventually end up on a Canadian Pharmacy site.ICANN's 38th Meeting took place last week in Brussels and has attracted a lot o...

2 July 2010
12:50 GMT

Swine Flu Causes Spike in Malicious Activity

Malware analysts from various security vendors warn that cyber crooks are capitalizing on the general public's interest into the deadly swine flu epidemic. Swine flu spam has started filling e-mail Inboxes aggressively at the beginning of this week, most of it pushing fake meds. With the number of swine flu dea...

28 April 2009
05:46 GMT


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