Stat from Cellopoint Lab shows that Spammers raise spam attacks on the eve of the major national holidays has become a trend. The Storm Worm, dormant for several weeks, had come back. With Halloween spam email, it spread out everywhere and caused personal data leaking. Researcher of Cellopoint said that during the traditional holidays, such as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, etc., the social engineering is most effective. People are not guarded against of email with subjects “Halloween Party”. When they click it on, a downloader tries to grab Trojans without awareness, the computer will become a member of a zombie network, controlled by the Spammer to distribute more spam. In two weeks ago, the outbreak of the large number of pump-and-dump mp3 spam was through this way.

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