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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:37 am Post subject: Royal Wedding Brings Out the Cyber Criminals |
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Cyber criminals are exploiting the world’s fascination with the British Royal Wedding, which is taking place on Friday. They’re using the attention the event is getting to bolster spam campaigns and push rogue antivirus software through black hat search tactics, according to security firm Symantec.
“As with any major event, criminals have been quick to take advantage of the online attention,” a Symantec representative tells WebProNews.
Among the threats is a spam email campaign, which advertises a replica of Princess Diana’s engagement ring. This has been going around since February.
“Furthermore, as we had anticipated, we have recently observed additional spam campaigns making use of this significant event to promote various products,” said Symatec’s Suyog Sainkar. “In one such recent spam campaign, email promoting a ‘limited edition Buckingham Mint Royal Wedding Commemorative Coin’ at a discounted rate is being observed.”
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