PC World turns to UAB for analysis of IRS Spam threat

PC World magazine recently printed an article about the IRS e-mail spam virus and its unabated campaign on in-boxes. UAB's director of research in computer forensics Gary Warner was consulted in the article's pages.

Below is an excerpted portion from the article. 

"Criminals are waging a nasty online campaign right now, hoping that their victims' fears of the tax collecter will lead them to inadvertently install malicious software.

The spam campaign, entering its third week now, is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This one campaign accounts for about 10 percent of the spam e-mail that his group is presently tracking, he said. 'This is the most prominent spam-delivered virus in the world right now,' he said."

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