Spammers Announce World War III

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 10, 2008 @09:56AM from the now-that's-not-cricket dept.

schliz writes with the stub of a disheartening article at IT News: "Hackers are deluging web users with malware-laden spam claiming that World War III has started following a US invasion of Iran. Security experts warned [yesterday] that spam emails with subject lines including 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in Iran,' and 'US Army crossed Iran's borders' have been intercepted. The emails contain links to a malicious webpage that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion."

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Re:Slashdot is just a good corporate citizen. by neostorm · 2008-07-10 11:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

what do chocobos have to do with this?!
Re:High Creep Factor. by dedazo · 2008-07-11 03:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Jesus christ twitter, are you for real? How dumb do you feel when you post things like these and then a few hours someone finds your new account?
When do you calculate you'll stop creating new sockpuppets? When the Slashdot user table overflows DB_INT?

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