Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip -- And a Keylogger

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Ouch.

Via NetworkWorld.

[snip]

Last week, a handful of employees at Dekalb Medical Center in Decatur,
Ga., received e-mails saying they were being laid off. The subject line
read “Urgent – employment issue,” and the sender listed on the message
was at dekalb.org, which is the domain the medical center uses. The
e-mail contained a link to a Web site that claimed to offer
career-counseling information.

And so a few employees, concerned about their employment status and no
doubt miffed about being laid off via e-mail, clicked on the link to
learn more and unwittingly downloaded a keylogger program that was
lurking at the site.

Score another one for spammers.

[snip]

More:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110106-spam-spear-phishing.html

- ferg


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