Email Scams are staging a comeback

Security vendors Sophos and Kaspersky Lab both have in recent days warned of scam emails using the names of well-established companies to try to lure victims to malware sites. The scheme is obvious, or ought to be—the bad guys figure that if they use a trusted name, victims will trust the link.

The scams have been present virtually since email began, but security experts say they are increasing at an accelerating pace.

On Kaspersky Lab's Threatpost blog, Brian Donohue wrote: "Criminal hackers launched an attack campaign earlier this week in which they sent a slew of emails purporting to come from the financial software developer Intuit. The emails contained links that led to sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit in an apparent attempt to infect the machines of corporate users."

There are multiple other examples, purporting to come from American Express, Microsoft and others.

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