Ed Bott wrote a truly excellent article over at ZDNet where he describes the history of Windows Malware, which shows on the very first slide that most malware is installed via social engineering or by using exploits that target vulnerabilities that have already been patched.
OK, here is another one to warn everyone about, especially the employees that have a 'corporate' AMEX card. The email claims to be from American Express and asks if the recipient recently tried to verify his or her account ID or change the account password. Obviously this was not done, and might get the person to worry and click on a link believing someone else accessed their account. But clicking on that link leads to a site that has malware and tries to infect the workstation. Think before you click! This is how the scam email looks, here is a a screenshot of the graph, and this is the full article:
OK, here is another one to warn everyone about, especially the employees that have a 'corporate' AMEX card. The email claims to be from American Express and asks if the recipient recently tried to verify his or her account ID or change the account password. Obviously this was not done, and might get the person to worry and click on a link believing someone else accessed their account. But clicking on that link leads to a site that has malware and tries to infect the workstation. Think before you click! This is how the scam email looks, here is a a screenshot of the graph, and this is the full article:
