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Last week, McAfee’s Avert Labs began to notice spammer abuse of Microsoft’s online storage service called Skydrive, where spammers uploaded links to the service that redirects people to an online pharmacy service once clicked on, all in an attempt to circumvent e-mail filters.
Windows Live Skydrive is an online storage service, launched in beta by Microsoft in August. Users can upload files and share those files with anyone via Web links. In the case of this spam campaign an HTML file was uploaded with a redirect to an online pill store.
“It is not just Skydrive,” said Dave Marcus, security research manager for McAfee Avert Labs. “In the past, [spammers] have abused services like this for a couple of reasons [because] they can push out an awful lot of files very quickly and very efficiently, and they are valid sites that are not blacklisted like most spammers addresses are. They can have a lot of successes for a short period of time until they are found out and then they will move on to a different online service to abuse.”
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