Celebrity News E-mails Linked to Malware

Malware purveyors know people love to click on links about celebrities with reckless abandon, particularly if the pop-culture icon has run afoul of the law, cheated on his wife or endured some other sordid sort of misfortune. According to security-software vendor AppRiver, a new wave of crooks have begun using subjects, such as "Gwen Stefani Fatal Car Crash" to get people to open up their unsolicited emails.