News of Kim Jong-Il's Death Used in Spam
Spammers are known to abuse significant world news for their malicious schemes. Similar spam campaigns include the death of Apple's and Libyan leader . This time, however, cybercriminals are taking advantage of Kim Jong-Il's death to spread malware via malicious messages.
live casino online received of these messages with email subjects mentioning the death of the said North Korean leader. The messages arrive with a .PDF attachment that has the file name brief_introduction_of_kim-jong-il.pdf.pdf. The said file is verified and is detected as TROJ_PIDIEF.EGQ.
The death of a globally known personalities has become a staple in cybercrime.Such news generate global interest in a very short amount of time, so they make very good social engineering lures.?Users are advised to stick to trusted sites when trying to get more information about noteworthy events. As a rule, users must refrain from opening any attachments coming from unknown sources and delete such messages from their inbox.
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