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Email Scams Capitalizing on the Adobe Acrobat X Release

Adobe warns that cyber criminals are piggybacking on the Adobe Acrobat X availability news in order to phish personal information from users. On Monday Adobe announced the release of Acrobat X solutions, which includes the Acrobat program itself and new Acrobat.com services, like the Adobe SendNow.Acrobat X provides ...

17 November 2010
03:34 GMT

Rate of Email Spam Containing Shortened URLs Rises

Security researchers from MessageLabs, Symantec's email security arm, warn that spammers are increasingly using shortened URLs in their campaigns. Compared to the first half of 2009 when one in 1,769 spam emails contained a shortened URL, the ratio for H1 2010, was of one in 76. The trend is expected to continue...

30 July 2010
10:23 GMT

Email Spam Run Impersonates Twitter Support Staff

Security researchers warn of an on-going email spam campaign, which masquerades as messages from Twitter's support team. The fake emails also abuse the logo and layout of the popular micro-blogging platform.The rogue messages have spoofed headers in order to appear to be originating from support@twitter.com. Acc...

23 April 2010
10:58 GMT

PayPal Classifies Its Own Email as Phishing Attempt

In an ironic twist of faith, PayPal security staff mistakenly concluded that a legit email message sent by the company was a phishing attack. The message was forwarded back to them by a security professional who wanted to raise awareness about insecure practices.Randy Abrams, director of technical education at ESET, ...

4 December 2009
10:18 GMT


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