Kaspersky Lab, a leading solutions for secure content management, has detected the mass mailing of unsolicited messages, including links to video ads.
Content Filtering Kaspersky Lab Research Group reported a bulk mail containing a link to the user a video ad on YouTube. There were variations in the message of several mass-mailing, but they all contain the link to the same video hosting site. YouTube is an interesting potential for sending spam, because of its popularity in the world. In 2007, Kaspersky Lab provides the opportunity to use YouTube as a way of spamming. However, this is the first time the company specialists have detected a mass mailing aimed specifically at encouraging Internet users to view a video advertising.
"Naturally, this type of advertising is more interesting and gets more successful," said Daria Gudkova, Head of Content Analysis and Research Kaspersky Lab "two years ago, spammers use the name of YouTube and promise of interesting videos to attract users to advertising sites. Now, the links actually lead to the popular video hosting site that is used to store the contents of unsolicited advertising. "
This is not the first time a creative approach has been used by spammers this year. In April, he found messages from non-standard complex images in advertising services spam. Technical noise have also been applied to graphics files, causing problems for spam filters.
Kaspersky Lab, recalls how important it is for users to keep spam filters to block spam active or potentially dangerous. The option of filtering spam for training in the company's products should also be used to continually improve the protection against all types of mass mailings of unsolicited.
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