What Next? Spam on RAR-Compacted Text Files
Tuesday July 31, 2007 at 8:00 am CST
Posted by Pedro Bueno
There was a time when we used to receive spam through regular email.
Then, the spammers learned about image spam, putting the message on picture files.
Recently we saw that they have moved to PDF spam, and later to encrypted PDF files.
A couple days ago we noticed spam in Excel files, and now we find another round with a different vector: RAR-compacted archives with spam inside text files!
Whatever will we see next?
July 31st, 2007 at 17:17
Probably Spam movies so we can watch filmed examples of how we can get ripped off or how our PC’s can be compromised as we’re running the file. This would be both educational for the user as well as provide some interim entertainment whilst they download all the user’s personal information and browsing habits, instead of seeing nothing which is generally the case.