Fake CNN malware
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.
The report continues:
The messages, said Sam Curry, vice president of product management at RSA, pose as alerts from the CNN cable news channel, and promise “graphic and striking” images about the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
“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.
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