V3.co.uk reports that just hours after the death of pop star Michael Jackson, security vendors are tracking attempts to cash in on the event by spammers and malware writers.
In a blog posting by security firm Sophos, the firm reported the first wave of spam messages “employing the sad news in the subject line and body part to harvest victims’ email addresses”.
The message sender claims to have information about Jackson’s death that they want to share with the recipient. Although the body of the spam message does not contain any URLs or other call-to-action links, if replied to it will allow the spammer to harvest the user’s email address, said Sophos.
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