Malware Riding On The Tides Of The Economic Crisis
- Monday, February 23, 2009, 8:46
- Threat Research
A new spam run is on the loose, misusing the global Economic Crisis as its social-engineering vector. Consumers looking for a bargain should take care, since the bad guys exactly want to fool people trying to save some money these days. Spam mails promoting bargains, which could help in the recession, are hitting the inboxes right now.
When a user wants to see what’s in for him and follows a link of such spam mails - please don’t do that! -, a web site like the one below is shown:
After the Valentine’s theme, the malware authors behind the Waledac botnet changed their lure to promote free coupons, pretending to “save” consumers a lot of money… The text states: Exclusive sale coupons and deals at over 100 000 stores in <City>, <Country>. You can find these amazing sale offers and coupons ONLY HERE! You can download free online and printable coupon list. In our list there are most popular stores, restaurants and companies in <City>, <Country> with discounts up to 95%. We help you to survive this crisis! The coupon list is named “couponslist.exe”, “sale.exe”, or “print.exe” - and, in fact, is malware.
In economically hard times, the malware authors do not rely only on clever and timely social-engineering, they also include a malicious IFRAME in the web site,
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