13.07.09
The Pig Influenza:
The computer science delinquents are taking advantage of the pig influenza to spread Spam, malware and adware, flooding the trays of entrance of million internauts with messages that announce and sell supposed remedies and you cure to end this disease. In some cases these mail sweepings looked for to secure the numbers of credit cards, although others simply wanted to sell medecines of bad quality.
After the World-wide Organization of the Health (the WHO) elevated the level of alert on the diffusion of the virus of the pig influenza, the equipment of technicians of Trend Micro (TS4704), global leader in security of contents in Internet, notices that spammers quickly this situation of alert is profiteer to extend their campaigns of Spam. Thus, already cases of mail have been detected sweepings with messages of the type “The pig influenza affects everybody� or “Bud of pig influenza�.
The company of McAffee security has informed into which it enters the 3 and 4% of all the Spam that circulated yesterday had like subject something related to the pig fever
Also, Trend Micro also notices of the circulation of electronic mails with supposed videos and messages of the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, or of employees of the Secretariat of Health, offering new measures and data on the epidemic.
`Already cases of mail have been detected sweepings with messages of the type `The pig influenza affects everybody' or `Bud of pig influenza! �, according to Trend Micro, that he emphasized that the creators of this type of messages increase `' the possibility that strongly their post office are abiertos when using the words `pig influenza' in the title of their messages.
The content of these messages of Spam is evidently not related to the virus of the pig influenza, but it is about a brief message that are related to pharmaceutical Spam and medicines with a Link that directs directly to the user to a store online that sells medecines for the erection.
The Olympic envestidura of Obama, day of San Valentin or Games. As it has been seen already in other occasions, the cibercriminales take advantage of the informative tendencies like bait to send Spam to the internauts, and as anticipated, they have not been other people's to the increasing preoccupation of the international community by the pig influenza.
