Wiz Feinberg
From:
Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2009 7:30 am |
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The Waledac Botnet, successor to the Storm Botnet, is currently spewing out a spam run, with fake claims that a bomb blast has occurred in your area. A link is provided in these scams, which leads to a fake (Reuters, etc) news page, which, using Geo-IP lookups, adds your approximate or actual location to a fake news page regarding a bomb blast, based on where your IP address is assigned. The malicious web page, hosted on a Botnetted PC, will attempt to automatically or manually infect your computer (with a fake Flash Player or Codec download) and make it a member of the Botnet.
You can read the full alert, with photos of captured spam messages, on the Trend Micro Blog.
Members who are using Trend Micro Internet Security (PC-cillin) are already protected from accidentally visiting these hostile pages (ya can't get there from here, Pilgrim!). You should delete these scam/spam messages as they arrive and never click on the links in them.
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