Spammers are driving traffic to a Canadian pharmacy website for Viagra and Cialis prescriptions using realistic looking Facebook notifications emails. Here is an example:
This example is from the Sophos blog. The basic play hear is for the spammers to earn money from your click-through that is paid by the pharmacy’s affiliate marketing campaign. In this particular case, there is no harm done except to your time. The trouble of course is that the spammers can change the direction of the link at whim, and send you to some malware infested website just as easily. The impotant thing for you to be doing is to make sure you really know who the emails are from and where the links are going BEFORE you click thorugh.
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I am a cybersecurity and IT instructor, cybersecurity analyst, pen-tester, trainer, and speaker. I am an owner of the WyzCo Group Inc. In addition to consulting on security products and services, I also conduct security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. I also teach Cybersecurity Awareness Training classes. I work as an information technology and cybersecurity instructor for several training and certification organizations. I have worked in corporate, military, government, and workforce development training environments I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the Minnesota Bloggers Conference, Secure360 Security Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, the (ISC)2 World Congress 2016, and the ISSA International Conference 2017, and many local community organizations, including Chambers of Commerce, SCORE, and several school districts. I have been blogging on cybersecurity since 2006 at http://wyzguyscybersecurity.com