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Spammers seeking "volunteers" to DDoS White House
08/20/2009
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Cybercriminals have begun to capitalize on the vehement debate in the country over health care reform, sending spam targeted at opponents of President Obama, according to email security vendor Proofpoint.
The emails, which claim to enable users to participate in a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against the president's website, come with the subject line “Here you can buy DDOS.” The body of the email says “If you don't like Obama come here, you can help ddos his site with your installs.”
Contained in the body of the message is a link that takes users to a site where they can download the supposed cyberattack tool, Keith Crosley, director of market development for Proofpoint told SCMagazineUS.com on Tuesday.
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