Now, World Cup spam

IT security company Websense Security Labs has detected a new wave of interesting malicious emails.

"At the dawn of the eagerly anticipated World Cup tournament, we would expect to be inundated with suitably themed spam. The sample we have encountered today is a little different from the usual, as the technique used may not raise suspicion. We have seen over 80,000 email messages in this new campaign, which uses an HTML attachment with an embedded JavaScript. Upon execution, this script leads to a malicious Web site, from which we are protecting our customers with our real-time analytics in our ACE engine," according to Websense's official blog.