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August 13, 2008 at 08:11 AM
ryans

Fake MSNBC breaking news alert: a weird twist in the CNN spam campaign

by ryans . Updated 17 years, 11 months ago

This morning several messages appeared to be coming from MSNBC breaking news alerts. However, it is another weird twist in the CNN spam campaign as the link http://breakingnews.msnbc.com will direct the user to the fake CNN video codec page to download the adobe_flash.exe (AV XP 2008). We expect to see in the next coming days variations of these messages as spammers find ways to entice users.


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