The use of the subject it is a common social engineering tactics and are designed to arouse curiosity, especially to those who have a false sense of security about the safety of a shortened link.
Symantec Intelligence research to find the spammers have made these services bypass its own URL so they can better hide the spam sites and makes it difficult to be blocked.
Analysis throughout the month of October indicates that the passage of spam by at least 80 sites have URLs bypass operation, which all use the same naming pattern and use the top level domain. Info.
"Spammers may have made these sites their own URLs bypass because bypass official sites, which have long been abused, have improved their spam detection capabilities and other harmful URLs. It is not known why these sites are common sites. Perhaps because spammers are lazy or trying to make the site look more official, "added Wood.
During 2010, 92 percent of spam emails contain URLs and use the link that has been shortened to make an antidote to the traditional anti-spam is difficult to block messages based on the URL fingerprint. Official services more quickly respond to abuse, and spammers take advantage of the opportunity that many people are familiar with the abbreviated links when running the social media activity and have a false sense of security about it.
During the month of October, we also found that SMS premium rate dialers targeting users in Eastern Europe. Dialer application seeks to present himself as a formal application to emulate the brand of VoIP applications / messages that are well known.
"Premium SMS Dialer started appearing on mobile threat landscape, especially in Eastern Europe. No surprise if the founders of the application which is responsible for the use of this lucrative source of revenue shown continuously improve their tactics and move to newer platforms," said Wood.
