-=PCTechTalk=- Fake Microsoft patches . . . spreading
- From: Dan Chisolm <d0ct0rdan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:40:46 -0400
Researchers from Computer Associates (NASDAQ:CA) and Sophos are reporting on
three currently active malware campaigns using fake Microsoft patch themes as a
social engineering tactic to spread over email.
The first one is spreading as an “Important Windows XP/Vista Security Update”
and is offering a bogus Conficker removal tool, the second is using an “Outlook
re-configuration” — also spammed earlier this month — and the third one is
using an out-of-the-band “Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express
(KB910721)” theme, which in reality is nothing else but a trojan.
Read the article at http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3648
~ Dan
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