Fake CNN malware attack spins Gaza angle

Fake CNN malware attack spins Gaza angle

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January 8, 2009 (Computerworld) Hackers have launched a large-scale spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications about the Israeli invasion of Gaza, security researchers said today, in a repeat of a massive campaign last summer that also posed as CNN alerts.

It starts off with phishing e-mail that tries to look like CNN," said Curry, "and then the social engineering aspect kicks in. The message tries to get you to go to a Web site that looks like CNN.com. There, the [fake] site says you must update to Adobe Acrobat 10." Accepting the download delivers a Trojan horse to the PC instead.

"The Trojan is an 'SSL' stealer," added Curry. "It scrapes the disk and looks for traffic to and from known financial services

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Looks like the hackers are using the crisis in Gaza to their advantage. This is spreading like wildfire all over the net, so if you get one of these emails, DO NOT OPEN IT! They are saying that the messages peaked at around 80,000 messages per hour at one point, but have now stabilized at 15,000 to 20,000 messages per hour (wow, what a relief....right?)

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Has anyone run into this and clicked on it yet? Just curious....