iOffer phishing email
The iOffer web site, a place to sell, buy and trade, is subject to a phishing email. MX Lab received some samples with the subject “You’ve received a question about your ioffer item Brand New…
Monthly Archives: January 2009
The latest spam campaigns on the net
Spam regarding meds and pills are still taking a serious part of all the spam messages worldwide. The latest spam messages are some fine examples. Google Groups spam The following spam message is using Google…
Conflict in Gaza inspires new CNN campaign from malware authors
The military campaign from Israël in Gaza has inspired malware distributors. The outbreak appears to be sent from CNN Media Centre ([email protected]) - obviously spoofed - with subject lines such as: israel’s war on hamas: a…
Northwest Airlines email contains a trojan
A Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jzb (Kaspersky), W32/Trojan-Gypikon-based.BA!Maximus (F-Prot), PWS:Win32/Zbot.gen!R (Microsoft) is spreading around. The trojan is spread by an email with the subject E-ticket #4452444681 (numbers will change) and is send by Northwest Airlines <[email protected]>. This is obviously a spoofed senders address.…
New UPS trojan variant: Delivery problems
A new UPS trojan variant is being detected called Mal/Zbot-G by Sophos and VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.CT by Microsoft. MX Lab was the first to send and analyse the file by Total Virus. Only 2 of the 36 AV engines at…
IKEA's New Planning Software is a trojan
Happy new year!
MX Lab wishes everyona a happy new year and a spam free 2009!