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Cybercrime Capitalizes on Swine-Flu Fears

Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 18, 2009 at 10:48 am PT

Cybercriminals are capitalizing on swine-flu fears by pitching sales of fake Tamiflu, security firm Sophos said. Networks of fraudsters use spam and malware to direct Web traffic to phony pharmaceutical sites, wrote Graham Cluley, a technology consultant for Sophos.