7 June 2007 22:04 GMT
First Stock Spam - Now PayPal Phishing
It appears that German spammers have run into the same creativity block that’s currently got a hold of Hollywood. For Hollywood it was “Pirates of the Caribbean 3″ and “Spiderman 3″. For German spammers it has been German stock spam and now German PayPal Phishing.
Today’s flavor of German Phishing came bundled with Troj/Dloadr-AZK, and bearing the subject lines:
PayPal Wichtige Sicherheits Update
( PayPal important security update )
and
Ihre neue PayPal Sicherheits Software
( It’s new PayPal security software )
What other old spam campaigns will German spammer and phishers recycle next?
Michael Shannon, Researcher, SophosLabs Canada
