{"id":329,"date":"2011-01-03T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/more-maleware-in-the-wild-e-card\/"},"modified":"2011-01-03T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T16:55:48","slug":"more-maleware-in-the-wild-e-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/more-maleware-in-the-wild-e-card\/","title":{"rendered":"More Maleware in the wild &lsquo;E-Card&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks just thought I&#8217;d pass this on.   <br \/>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowserver.org\/wiki\/pmwiki.php\/Calendar\/20101230\">Shadow Server<\/a> have found this propagating.    <br \/>There are loads of new security threats &#8211; many using tried and true vectors.    <br \/>This one uses the &#8216;E-Card&#8217; email route.    <br \/>One that STILL somehow get people! Please NEVER, EVER, EVER open up these type of links!    <br \/>They often look like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/botspam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"botspam\" border=\"0\" alt=\"botspam\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/botspam_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also has information on this latest threat here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/mmpc\/archive\/2010\/12\/31\/unhappy-new-year.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/mmpc\/archive\/2010\/12\/31\/unhappy-new-year.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/mmpc\/archive\/2010\/12\/31\/unhappy-new-year.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please folks be careful and exercise caution when opening email or \u2018clicking\u2019 on links. and&#160; keep your systems up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks just thought I&#8217;d pass this on. The folks at Shadow Server have found this propagating. There are loads of new security threats &#8211; many using tried and true vectors. This one uses the &#8216;E-Card&#8217; email route. One that STILL somehow get people! Please NEVER, EVER, EVER open up these type of links! They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/more-maleware-in-the-wild-e-card\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Maleware in the wild &lsquo;E-Card&rsquo;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,50,18,21,75,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-virus","category-hack","category-microsoft","category-security","category-spam","category-virus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta 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