From the some-stories-write-themselves file, the recent revelation that hijacked PCs insider Pfizer’s own corporate network are part of a botnet sending out spam for the company’s much-spammed Viagra product:
Computers inside pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s network are spamming the internet with e-mails touting the company’s flagship erectile-enhancement drug Viagra, along with ads for knockoff Rolexes and shady junk stocks.
… Pfizer’s computers appear to have been infected with malware that has transformed them into zombie computers sending spam at the behest of a hacker. Oddly enough, they are spamming the public’s inboxes with ads for the company’s own product.
Well, that’s one way to keep escalating marketing expenses off the Pfizer income statement.
[via Wired]
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