Spam campaigns have been taken to the next higher level with the use of company logos, it has been alleged.
The logos of major software firm Microsoft and Trend Micro have been used in spam email drives in recent days and it has been claimed.
SC Magazine reported, “According to the Trend Micro, emails that have been sent appear to be legitimate since they use trusted company logos, but may contain malicious software”.
Anti-spam researcher at Trend Micro Maria Alarcon said that, “Relying again on the popularity of these two said companies and using these would be at first look seems to Microsoft/Trend Micro-related content spammers could be able to fool some recipients into actually downloading and installing the attachment”.
Also she pointed out that one example of an email to Latin American users contained both logos and urged the recipient to download an attached file to protect themselves from malicious attacks.
And also, it was revealed that some users of social networking sites, like Twitter and Face book, had their passwords and still information was stolen by the spammers.