In time for the upcoming tax season, Trend Micro spotted samples of spammed messages posing as Fidelity Investments, a well-known American financial institution.The email, which is in a newsletter-format, contains the subject 'Your statement is ready for your review'.
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We received a spam sample that spoofs its 'From' field to look like an email report from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team or the US-CERT. It's a bit of an irony that the sample purportedly came from them since the US-CERT aims to protect the nation's Internet infrastructure.
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Trend Micro received a sample email notification supposedly from the Federal Ministry of Finance of Malaysia. In the said message, recipients are informed that two gentlemen are claiming to be representatives of the recipients' fund amounting to $10.
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Spammers are known to abuse significant world news for their malicious schemes. Similar spam campaigns include the death of Apple's Steve Jobs and Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi.
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Spammers leverage the upcoming holiday seasons to potentially steal user information. Trend Micro researchers found spammed messages containing greetings for the holidays.
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Spammed messages that leverage Black Friday and Cyber Monday are found in the wild. These spammed messages inform users on the various offers and discounts on software items and contain multiple links redirecting to a commerce website.
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Black Friday is one of the highly anticipated events in the United States, specifically among online shoppers, as it offers great discounts for popular items. Thus, it is not surprising that spammers use this event to spread their profiteering schemes.
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Trend Micro received samples of an email message that poses as a letter from Reader's Digest India. It informs recipients that they are potential finalists of a supposed sweepstakes.
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Trend Micro received a sample message that poses as a legitimate LinkedIn notification. Recipients may be fooled as the email looks legitimate and the visible links in the message body looks similar to those used by LinkedIn.
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Holiday-themed threats are a staple in today's threat landscape. In particular, users should be on the lookout for spammed messages that leverage popular events.
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