MSN Spam Takes It Up a Notch

Tuesday 17 August 2010 - Filed under Uncategorized

MSN spambots which just throw out context-free malicious links have been around for years, but recently I’ve observed a far more clever variant in the wild – it pretends to have a conversation with you, although it doesn’t care what you say at all.

Observe a sample conversation (but don’t follow the link, it’s a landing page for a $10/wk SMS scam). After you spot it the first time, the “I was better than I am! I scored X” line is an easy signature for detecting this one:

Btw, Katie Cookson and Rob Noldus: Your MSN accounts and/or machines have been owned by this thing. Please fix that soon.

2010-08-17  »  admin