Malware Uses Amazon for Malicious Intentions
By Bryan on May 4, 2010 | Computer Security, Amazon, malware, cybercrime
A new way of malware increase was noticed recently. This is a spammed message pretending to to be a newsletter from Amazon. What is incredible that these messages goes undercover as a supposed Amazon email address, {BLOCKED}ers@amazon.com.
How everything works? If you've got a letter from this fake email – ignore it. The messages tries to trick you into believing you are legitimate by producing various product endorsements. Clicking on images or fake links may lead you to the same malicious web page and it is not a real Amazon site, that's for sure.
You can read more about this at the site's forum where the malware is discussed by wary users. The spam is a very tricky one because spammed message can easily pass off as a legitimate email which users are likely to click. Amazon spam is one of the many possible ways users are decoyed into becoming victims of cybercrime.
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