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Be Aware: Not another e-card

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 29, 2008 6:58AM PDT

29 October 2008

2007 was the year of ?Storm? aka Dorf. One of the social engineering techniques it used (and probably contributed to its success) was the lure of an electronic creating card or ?eCard?.
Over the course of the year we had a seemingly endless stream of greetings for practically every conceivable reason. Halloween, Christmas, 4th of July and so on.

Publicity around storm seems to have died off over recent months, although there is still a lot of discussion about it in industry. One thing for certain though, fake greeting cards are still popular with the malware authors. Looking at the current flood of malware coming into our spam traps, ecards are back with a vengeance!

More: http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/10/1895.html

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