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New Blended Threat Outbreak Reminiscent of First Storm

A new blended threat outbreak started yesterday whose subject lines and contents are strangely reminiscent of the first “Storm” outbreak, which created outlandish headlines to socially engineer people to open the malware. In this case, the headlines are more topical to today, including:

Private investigation report on your colleague
Iran announces completion of nuclear weapon
Afghan captial in [...]

Malware Disguised as IE7 Update

August 6th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Email Security, Web Security | Leave a comment »

How ironic - malware distributors are using the vulnerabilities inherent in IE (and other browsers) to distribute malware purporting to be an Internet Explorer update!

The spammers did a few things to make the message appear to be legitimately from Microsoft, spoofing a Microsoft from address, and copy-pasting the MSN text into the bottom. Of course, [...]