Michael Jackson Spam Distributes Malware
As we anticipated in our yesterday's diary, spammers are starting to exploit attention-grabbing headlines of recent celebrity deaths. Sophos described one such message, with the subject "Confidential===Michael Jackson", in their blog posting. Today we're starting to see reports of these messages directing viduals to websites that distribute malicious software.
For example, Steve Basford emailed us a link to his blog posting, where he discusses a spammed fake news item invites the victim to download a "video" to download. The message said: "As redes de televisão americanas CBS e ABC também estão noticiando a morte do cantor, assim como a versão online do jornal New York Times e da revista Variety..." (See screen shot below.)
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Lenny Zeltser - Security Consulting
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