Shaw Capital Working Management: Osama Bin Laden s Death a Party for Spammers,
Fake AV Scammers
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On the heels of Osama bin Laden’s death after a firefight...
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Shaw Capital Working Management: Osama Bin Laden s Death a Party for Spammers,
Fake AV Scammers
http://www.
eweek.
com/c/a/Security/Osama-Bin-Ladens-Death-a-Party-for-SpammersFake-AV-Scammers-721672/
On the heels of Osama bin Laden’s death after a firefight with United States Navy Seal forces in
Pakistan, scammers wasted no time in pushing out rogue AV, fake codecs and Facebook
scams.
Cyber-criminals have seized on the killing of Osama bin Laden as a fresh opportunity to
push out rogue antivirus products, fake video codecs and Facebook scams using
poisoned search links.
President Barack Obama announced the success of a Navy Seals operation that killed
Osama Bin Laden in a $1 million mansion hideout located 60 miles north of Islamabad,
Pakistan, on May 1.
Less than 12 hours later, cyber-criminals launched multiple scams
designed to take advantage of people flocking to the Web to get the latest information.
For the moment, the malicious sites are pushing fake antivirus such as “Best
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