Security investigators from M86 Security a security company warn that a spam run is doing the rounds while attacking Twitter members with one fresh tactic that's sending a Tweet template within an unsolicited spam mail.
Remarking about this new malicious e-mail scam, Lead Security Investigator Phil Hay of M86 Security stated that although there were variations in the spam messages' captions, the majority of the subject lines related to the recent unfortunate incidences that occurred in Japan. Infosecurity-magazine.com published this on March 18, 2011.
Hay further stated that one e-mail's web-links took users onto a site, which supported a disguised hostile JavaScript that aimed at abusing a Java flaw. If the links were clicked through, it resulted in the immediate compromise of the host PC that was then incorporated into a botnet, while a rogueware was planted.
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