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?Classmates Reunion? Used as Malware Ploy

by Marianna Schmudlach Jan 1, 2009 10:13AM PST

January 1, 2009

Class reunion invitations (supposedly from classmates.com) are being seen in spam recently ? recipients of these messages are asked to click on a link found in the message to get the details of the ?reunion? and also see a related video.

Looking at the IP origins of sample spam messages, it appears that these have been sent out by spam bots using dynamic IPs from different dialup and broadband ISPs.

More: http://blog.trendmicro.com/

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