Cellopoint warns of Valentine’s Threat

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, email threats hided in Valentine’s Card are also awakening. Cellopoint Global Anti-spam Center, CGAC has a warning for internet users: The surge of Valentine Day attacks come from notorious Waledac botnet and disguise as E-card format. This kind of spam carries links to get users to visit malicious sites. Instead of real greeting cards, malware will be downloaded and compromised their computers. The infected computers will become part of botnet and send out spam and virus without awareness as well.
This kind of spam is short and sweet one liner with content like: “Me and You”, “In Your Arms”, “With all my love” and “I give my heart to you” followed by an URL. If you receive an email above and similar to the title, you should be careful. Do not open it without double confirm. Besides, tax refund and online booking confirmation also increases in amount.

Cellopoint provides a few tips to stay away from spam:

1. Use an email security solution. This solution should protect against inbound email threats and viruses while ensuring transmission of legitimate email messages without delay. It should maintain a very low false-positive rate.
2. Educate users on secure email practices. Be careful with suspicious email. Never fill out forms in email messages that ask for personal or financial information or passwords. Remember that legitimate companies will never ask for this type of information via email. Avoid opening suspicious emails and clicking on suspicious links.
3. Do not reply to spam, as it will let Spammer know your email address is valid. Then they will send more spam. In addition, a number of spam contains unsubscribe links will create the same result. The best way to deal with spam is to delete without reading it.
4. Watch out for social-engineering trap. Hackers become more sophisticated and often trick individuals to enable malicious code attacks (Spear Phishing).
5. Do not forward chain letters. This special kind of email may be created by hackers to collect email accounts for the production of spam.

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