Mal-spam (or perhaps malspam) describes all forms of malicious spam sent with malicious intent. Mal-spam includes: phishing, spear-phishing, whaling, baiting, pretexting, among others.
- Payloads can include: Malicious attachments, links to malicious web pages, enticements to perform transactions, ransomware, key loggers, etc.
- Bad things that can happen: man-in-the-middle attacks (woman-in-the-middle attacks too), network compromise, zombie botnets, insertion of zero-day exploits, viruses, trojan horses, rootkits, backdoors, job scams and other scams and code with malicious intent.
- Mal-spam can be hard to spot due to: Sender address spoofing, content that replicates legitimate senders, etc.
- Payloads can include: Malicious attachments, links to malicious web pages, enticements to perform transactions, ransomware, key loggers, etc.
- Bad things that can happen: man-in-the-middle attacks (woman-in-the-middle attacks too), network compromise, zombie botnets, insertion of zero-day exploits, viruses, trojan horses, rootkits, backdoors, job scams and other scams and code with malicious intent.
- Mal-spam can be hard to spot due to: Sender address spoofing, content that replicates legitimate senders, etc.
Be especially careful to avoid mal-spam, it can really mess up your day. Better off to just delete it. Certainly don't click any links or open attachments.
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It could be an article that appeared on The Telegraph and one would think that everyone would have read it - but you still copy the link and send it to a couple of interested friends.
Other people might consider it spam, but your friends perhaps like it!
It could be an article that appeared on The Telegraph and one would think that everyone would have read it - but you still copy the link and send it to a couple of interested friends.
Other people might consider it spam, but your friends perhaps like it!
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Martina: Nice read! This selective spamming of inboxes is quite useful
Martina: Nice read! This selective spamming of inboxes is quite useful
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He/she is ultra smart and great at piano
Also he is Irish and ugly
He/she is ultra smart and great at piano
Also he is Irish and ugly
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