Swine Flu - New dangers in websites and email also

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:38 PM by hwaldron

Email Numerous web sites are being registered and many of these will be used for legitimate purposes. However, some sites could be used for future phishing attacks or to seed malwarePlease be careful with both email and websites that you might encounter related to this topic.

Extensive Registrations of Swine Flu Websites
(some of these site names could be used in future attacks)
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6280
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001668.html
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/swineflu_domains.txt

Spam messages are circulating that should be avoided, as they could contain malicious links

Swine Flu Spam
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/04/27/swine-flue-spam/
http://blog.trendmicro.com/swine-flu-outbreak-hits-the-web-through-spam/

QUOTE: Subject Lines:
First US swine flu victims!
US swine flu statistics
Salma Hayek caught swine flu!
Swine flu worldwide!
Swine flu in Hollywood!
Swine flu in USA
Madonna caught swine flu!

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