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Spam attack uses second news agency as front to attacks

Monday, August 25, 2008

Internet users continue to be struck with spam mail messages posing as an international news agency, it has been reported.

Millions of spam mail messages, which posing as content from MSNBC.com, were sent to people containing a link to a malware site.

However, this is not the first news organisation to have been used as a front for spam mails as earlier this month as many as 11 million messages per hour were sent to users - pretending to be from CNN.com.

Writing in the MX Logic blog, Sam Masiello, vice-president of information security for the firm, reported that "typically we see copycats shortly after a major campaign, but this was sent by the same people".

It was reported that the spam mail messages contain the subject title "Breaking News" in addition to fake news headlines.

Recently Google reported that July was the busiest month of the year in terms of email virus attacks.ADNFCR-1765-ID-18746713-ADNFCR

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