No Joke: Spammers Capitalize on April Fools' DayNo Joke: Spammers Capitalize on April Fools' Day
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/april_fool_storm_worm/">The Register</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9906880-57.html">CNET News.com</a>
Hackers are taking advantage of April Fools' Day with new releases of the Storm Worm.The latest spam e-mail campaign aims to trick recipients into visiting Web sites under the control of hackers containing executables with names such as foolsday.exe, Kickme.exe or funny.exe. E-mail subject lines might simply say "April Fool's Day," and in the body of the email: "Doh! April Fools," followed by a numeric URL.
Spam makes up 90 percent of total e-mail volume, according to Google subsidiary Postini, costing U.S. companies large and small billions in in lost productivity and other expenses.The Register, CNET News.com
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