Google Says Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever

eweekhickins writes "Google's Postini team says new attacks will take the form of sneaky viruses that will blend with spam, leveraging specific current events, such as the Super Bowl or the Summer Olympic Games. Better yet, virus attacks will target executives at companies whose intellectual property is deemed valuable on the black market. A lot of these attacks will masquerade as legitimate business agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau and the SEC."

Comments

You don't say?

[Rob T Firefly]

Damn, my entire security plan really depended on them suddenly getting really really stupid. If the scammers suddenly forgot how to send email, switch on a computer, or breathe air my life would be so much easier.

Well, which is it?

[mcmonkey]

A lot of these attacks will masquerade as legitimate business agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau and the SEC.

Will these attacks masquerade as legitimate business agencies, or as agencies such the Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau, and the SEC?

Re:How?

[Itninja]

Everybody knows that Google is so |337 that even the spammers grace them with beta copies of new spam.

By the Power of Grayskull NO.....

[EdIII]

Better yet, virus attacks will target executives at companies whose intellectual property is deemed valuable on the black market.

They found the biggest security weakness of every single company... The Pointy Haired Ones.