In the past couple of days, we’ve been seeing a lot of spam purporting to come from the Apple Store. As you can see below, this spam is pretty primitive; it doesn’t look anything like Apple’s standard layout, and gives little information. In addition, it’s not even seriously dangerous: unlike phishing attempts, the link on this message doesn’t lead you to a page where you enter your name and password. It simply takes you to a “Canadian Pharmacy” website, where you can order “medications”, such as Viagra (which is most certainly bogus). <\/p>\n
This spam is certainly taking advantage of the buzz around the iPad, as well as Apple’s general good health. So be aware: if you receive an unexpected e-mail, hover your cursor over the links it contains to see if they go to the site in question. As you can see above, this is not the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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