New Flavour of Spam - MP3 Stock Scams 170
An anonymous reader writes "Spammers are back with a new trick, this time round sending messages with MP3 attachments that contain the latest pump-and-dump stock scams. One sample identified by Sophos was a heavily distorted 30-second MP3 file. A synthetic female voice was used to promote a particular stock. Says Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos: 'Although the spammers seem to have a fair bit to learn about machine-generated sales patter, some companies might consider blocking all MP3s in email as a matter of course. So many music files infringe copyright, and it can be hard for a company to establish which ones are legal and which are not after they have arrived. Blocking MP3s, or at least quarantining until requested by the user, can be a good way for a company to take a proactive stance against the use of email for illegal file sharing. It also has the benefit of neutralizing this sort of spam at the same time.'"
VOIP? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:That Spam won't exist for long (Score:3, Interesting)
What I want to know... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:mp3s with payload? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:That Spam won't exist for long (Score:1, Interesting)
Umm ... except for those artists and fans that use ftp and p2p services to legally distribute their works ...
Re:Ugh, please don't block file types... (Score:3, Interesting)
For one company I exchange email with I have to pgp encrypt most types of potentially executable code, including ksh scripts, then strip the PGP headers and footers and send the raw base64. Its the only way to get it through their mail system.