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Fake Twitter Notifications Lead to Pharma Spam

A large number of fake emails purporting to come from Twitter and informing recipients about unread messages are used to spread links to rogue pharmacy websites.According to security provider MX Lab, the rogue emails bear a subject of "Twitter - You have 1 unread message(s)" and have forged headers to appear as origi...

21 March 2011
08:58 GMT

More Facebook-Themed Spam with Rogue Links Hits Inboxes

Security researchers from Avira warn of a new wave of spam emails that carry rogue links and masquerade as official messages from Facebook.In one campaign, the fake emails purport to be notifications of photo comments and come with a subject of "[name] made a comment about your photo in the album..."The messages even...

18 September 2010
01:30 GMT

Flurry of New Email Attacks Impersonate Twitter

Security researchers warn of new email spam campaigns that are masquerading as official Twitter messages that link to malicious websites. Some of these attacks direct users to phishing pages, while others to websites pushing computer trojans or scareware.“Spammers seem to be on something of a Twitter rampage of...

9 June 2010
11:13 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


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