Do online greeting cards need Extended Validation?
Created: 14 Nov 2006 | Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Fascinating article on how criminals are using fake online greeting cards to place malware on computers. The criminals spam us with mimetically accurate fakes of popular greeting cards' notification e-mails. In this case the card is looking for a unpatched system onto which it can install a keylogger. However, the classic phishing technique of sending e-mails pretending to be something they're not is still at work here.
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