phishing<\/a> emails offer Web users a “free Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrade,” but the links contained within direct people to a malware distribution site instead.<\/p>\n“Our samples, as well as reports elsewhere, show this scam being sent by otherwise legitimate email service providers,” Cloudmark reports.<\/p>\n
“Mailchimp has been victimized this way in the past, Exact Target was a source earlier this month, and the current batch of scam spam is coming from Silverpop,” the firm claimed.<\/p>\n
Cloudmark claims that Adobe is aware of these campaigns and has been proactively warning recipients, urging them to delete any messages they are not 100% certain about.<\/p>\n
Recently, a new type of phishing attack was launched that could bypass conventional browser security.<\/p>\n
The scam targeted Paypal users by disguising the spam emails as official communications from the firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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