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Hackers have found a creative new way to distribute spam by abusing the infrastructure of legitimate websites.

As a result, the campaigns are more successful in reaching peoples inboxes.

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The attack works by overloading the name field with text and a link.

But the good news is that the emails sent like this are easy to spot.

They still look, and read, like your usual post-signup email, albeit with somewhat modified content.

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