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Michael Jackson's unknown killer |
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Written by Hideo
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
 Bitdefender has issued a warning today regarding spam e-mails hitting the web and using recent death of Michael Jackson as a way to fool people. A few new spam waves (4 different strains) hit our inbox since Michael Jackson's' death and guess who the main character was? Malware writers are fast at adapting news to spread their own evil creations or schemes and this event was no different.
Example of such spam email are as follows:
The body of this spam message looked like this:
Michael Jackson Was Killed...
But Who Killed Michael Jackson?
Visit X-Files to see the answer:
http://MJac[removed]ij.com/x-files
The subject of the message is: Who killed Michael Jackson?
The target website looked like this:
The file presented as “the file with secret information” about Michael Jacksons' killer is nothing but a recycled ZBot, more specifically Trojan.Spy.Zbot.UI, detected as Trojan.Spy.ZBot.VG this time. ZBot is known to transform the infected machines into
spamming relays, sending hundreds of messages without the users knowledge or consent, consuming valuable network and computing
resources.
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