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Sophos experts have analyzed this latest spam campaign

Trend Micro experts published a detailed paper on spam runs that rely on the exploit kit

It looks like a phishing campaign, but it's much worse than that

It looks like a legitimate email, but it's designed to serve the Blackhole exploit kit

For the time being it's not widespread, but that can change at any time

Blackhole and RedKit have been seen to posses such functionality

Over 1 million messages have already been sent out

Cybercriminals increased the frequency of fake notifications after the data breach

Experts report that cybercriminals do everything they can to lure users to Blackhole

The fake notifications appear to originate from a "twitter.com" email address

Here's how you can identify a malicious notification

The campaign appears to be connected to the phony Craigslist emails that make the rounds

The shady automated email notifications look legitimate

Links contained in the notifications lead to sites that host the Blackhole exploit kit

It's easy to monetize a malicious operation when there are so many potential victims

It exploits vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader, Internet Explorer and Java

The BlackHole Exploit Kit is used to spread the malicious Cridex worm