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Air France crash prompts spam, malware outbreak

By Dan Kaplan

Jun 15 2009 10:05AM

As expected, spammers and malware writers are trying to cash in on the Air France disaster.

Spammers have begun falsely promising news on the Air France crash as a way of tricking recipients into opening messages promoting Canadian pharmacy products.Junk mailers this week began pushing a new campaign that included subject headings such as "Last seconds of plane" or "A-330 blackbox ...

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