That Didn't Take Long

Spammers and malware authors are notorious for latching on to breaking news stories and using them in their campaigns, and they're pretty quick about it. As I was listening to the news this morning, it seemed like every other story is about swine flu. So, i thought I'd take a peek into our filters to see if they were using this theme in hopes to pique your interest and get you to visit their websites yet, and of course they were.

Other subject lines included things like:
US swine flu fears
Salma Hayek caught swine flu!
Will swine flu attack USA?
Administration declares health emergency in swine flu outbreak
Madonna caught swine flu!
US swine flu statistics

All of the emails were similar with a one-line body and a link to one of many .cn domains. All of the links I tried were already broken, but I believe they were once pointed towards pharmaceutical sites.