Really, your face isn’t stupid

Spam is annoying. By our estimates, 80% of all email is now spam. As you’d expect, many people are now a lot smarter about how to filter out or completely ignore spam. This means that spammers are having to come with new ways to approach us and get to open and or click on attachments that are enclosed.

Recent weeks have seen the spammers switch their attention to insulting us to get our attention.  There has been a flood of emails with a subject line of ‘Your stupid face’. Their intent has been to get us angry or curious enough to open the email and then click on the attachment purporting to the user’s ’stupid face’. The attachment is a ‘video.exe’ or something similar. If you click on it, you can be directed to a host which has the malware on it and before you know it, you are infected with a bot.
 
This new genre of spam is being described as ’spam slam’. So, if you see something like this in your in-box, don’t open or click on it: delete it.  Even, if you think your face is a bit stupid.

June 24, 2008 | Filed Under Security, Spam 

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