Pintrest gets popular for retailers, here comes the scammers

Malwarebytes has posted to their blog that the ‘virtual pin-board’ social site has gained a lot of momentum and become one of the highest referral traffic sites for retailers. As such, it is not a big surprise that it is a popular choice for scammers and malware authors.

Dubious online pharmaceutical companies use and abuse Pinterest to promote their ‘products’:



The bad guys are also going after Pinterest’s growing user base by sending spam emails claiming to be from Pinterest itself, asking for a password reset, as reported in early July by security firm Trend Micro.

Instead of a password reset, the victim is redirected to the infamous Blackhole Exploit Kit that delivers multiples exploits to infect the user’s computer.

As always, think before you click. Majorgeeks has long recommended Malwarebytes to scan or completely protect your system. It’s one of the best.