Online Pizza Order Comes with Malware Topping

[Jack]

Pizza Super Supreme, Pizza Veggie Lover’s, Pizza Ultimate Cheese Lover’s and drinks. Before you stir up your appetite, you should be warned that all these delicious pizzas are actually featured in the latest malware spreading spam campaign.

Internet users may be presented these days with a fake pizza order that claims they have to pay a total of $107 (75 EUR). The crooks are relying on the confusion created to make their victims rush to press the Cancel Order Now link, which will redirect them to a malicious website.

“If you haven’t made the order and it’s a fraud case, please follow the link and cancel the order. If you don’t do that shortly, the order will be confirmed and delivered to you,” reads the bottom part of the message.

The malicious websites the user is redirected to are actually legitimate websites that were compromised to further redirect him to a malevolent domain in Russia, reports Commtouch Café.

The cleverest thing about this scheme is the way the pieces of malware are served to the unsuspecting internaut. A malware generator scans the system to determine what operating system it runs, what browser is utilized and what other potentially vulnerable components may be present.

The site is prepared to serve a cocktail of malware for almost any platform, using weaknesses that might be present in Java, Acrobat Reader, Flash and other known vulnerable extensions.

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[MrXidus]

Now that is interesting. Luckily I still order pizza the old fashion way. Simple phone call. Doing it online takes 4x the time.

Thanks for the read.

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

To be honest, I never knew that we can order Pizza online. I totally agree with MrXidus.

 

[Valentin N]

homemade pizza is the best, only viruses are there that can't be isolated before it gets the oven ^^ otherwise I pizza down town. 100% secure ^^

 

[win7holic]

although there are through an online transaction, I would have never believed all transactions through Online.

 

[NSG001]

No worries I only eat Curries

 

[MarioBe]

Haha! Brilliant analogy, btw. I only use Dominos, so I don't wonder off to strange, dodgy sites.
If you use smartphones you might want to read this guys article on malware:
http://teropollanen.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/malware-disguised-as-smartphone-apps/

 

[Deleted member 178]

Pizzas are virus themselves, but a holy awesome good virus !

 

[Jack]

If you use smartphones you might want to read this guys article on malware:
http://teropollanen.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/malware-disguised-as-smartphone-apps/

Here is another interesting article : http://malwaretips.com/Thread-Vendors-of-Android-anti-virus-software-are-charlatans-and-scammers-says-Chris-DiBona


PS: Welcome !!