A warning alarm about a widespread spam campaign lurking in the online world has been rung by the experts at SophosLabs. Sophos claim this spam campaign is disguised as a breaking news report, but in fact is an endeavor to ensnare computer users into being riddled by a Trojan horse and invaded by hackers.
The campaign is claimed to be so prevalent that since midnight GMT the Trojan has made up more than two thirds of all malware reports found at Sophos’s global network of monitoring stations, including an infection rate of 1 in 200 of all emails being distributed throughout the net. With the aim of alluring the PC users, the hackers have made use of catchy headlines in the pernicious mails. Check the subject lines the emails below:
230 dead as storm batters Europe.
British Muslims Genocide
Naked teens attack home director.
A killer at 11, he’s free at 21 and kill again!
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel
The spammed emails are consisted with the following attacked files: Full Video.exe, Read More.exe, Full Clip.exe, Full Story.exe, Video.exe, all of these files have pernicious code. As per the reports of Sophos experts, the hackers have wittingly opted for a subject line associated to storms seeing that European nations have been stricken hard by awful weather in the recent week.
