Emails promising CNN article about HeartBleed vulnerability leads to Spam sites

Cyber Criminals often take advantage of hottest topics and latest events to entice users into visiting spam websites. The HeartBleed bug, which has made headlines over the past few weeks, is no exception.

Now, spammers are sending out emails with subject "HeartBleed Bug warning". The spam campaign was discovered by Security researchers at TrendMicro. 

"I Just want to let you know there is a big security concern now in the internet.  The Internet bug called Heartbleed Bug, was recently discovered by experts.  So if were you, you need to change your internet passwords specially your banking passwords." The spam email reads.

"Check for this report in CNN. Report from CNN[LINK]"

If the link provided in the email led to the actual CNN report, the email may have been considered as cyber security awareness email.  But, the link leads to some malicious webpage.

One good thing what spammers did is notifying users about the HeartBleed vulnerability and suggest recipients to change their password.  If the link provided in the email.