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Pirates, Bunnies and Worms

Last nights Pirates of the Caribbean attack shows how organised and opportunistic malware authors are. Timing the spamming out of the Trojan with the release of the film, although not a great inspiration, it does highlight the professional approach authors are taken. In the world of spam, weve been seeing quite a lot of abuse of image hosting sites. The technique is similar to the previous abuse of free host sites like Geocities, but in this case an image is posted and the link included in the spam.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2007/05/25/pirates-bunnies-and-worms/

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