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Spammers Use Fake Tibetan Statement on the Olympics
- — Aug. 10, 2012, 8:26 p.m.
As early as March 2012, we have spotted a number of Tibetan-themed campaigns, and we’ve documented some of them through this blog. So far, the attacks are pretty consistent: they usually arrive as emails with pro-Tibetan sentiments as subjects, and have malicious file attachments. Very recently, however, we found one Tibetan-themed campaign that also touches [...]
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Spammers Use Fake Tibetan Statement on the Olympics
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