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Samoan Tsunami used in new cyber attack

Submitted by admin on Thursday, 1 October 2009No Comment

“Cyber criminals are again wasting no time on capitalising on public interest in major news events with a new phishing attack being reported based on the recent Tsunami hitting Pacific Island nations.

F-secure has reported that search engine optimisation (SEO) poisoning is again being used to to lure people into downloading a rogue antivirus agent. “

(Samoan Tsunami used in new cyber attack – f-secure, phishing, security, SEO poisoning – Computerworld)

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