- Jan 24, 2011
- 9,379
Sophos is intercepting a malicious spam attack, which attempts to infect recipient's computers with a Trojan horse by pretending to contain images of the Scandinavian sender.
Here is what a typical malicious email looks like:
The message, which appears to be written in Norwegian, roughly translates to:
Hey Man,
I do not know how to say it, but I have tried for a long time to send you some pictures, but I've been thinking that you are not interested in seeing me.
But now I'll send you pictures in the attachment.
Download the images and extract them, I'm sure that you will like them. The password is: 123456
Have a great day.
The attached file, named Image123.zip, is encrypted - presumably in an attempt to avoid detection by weaker anti-virus products - but the email message contains the password to unlock the ZIP and reveal the malware to you.
Source
Here is what a typical malicious email looks like:
The message, which appears to be written in Norwegian, roughly translates to:
Hey Man,
I do not know how to say it, but I have tried for a long time to send you some pictures, but I've been thinking that you are not interested in seeing me.
But now I'll send you pictures in the attachment.
Download the images and extract them, I'm sure that you will like them. The password is: 123456
Have a great day.
The attached file, named Image123.zip, is encrypted - presumably in an attempt to avoid detection by weaker anti-virus products - but the email message contains the password to unlock the ZIP and reveal the malware to you.
Source
