Kaspersky labs is currently tracking a spam campaign which involves a (fake) report from CNN saying that the US have started bombing Syria.
When the shortened link is clicked, it will lead to an exploit kit which targets vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader and Java. The attackers seem to be favoring the Java exploit over the Reader exploit because Java exploits are more reliable with a higher infection rate.
The drive by exploit will download a Trojan-Downloader onto the system which will then download other variants of malware.
