Spam Rides on Apple's iPhone 5 Release
June 08, 2011
As early as now, cybercriminals are already?leveraging the much-anticipated release of Apple's iPhone 5. TrendLabs engineers found spammed messages, which bore the subject, Finally. The amazing iPhone 5. Now available in black edition?and purports to come from Apple.com. It informs users that Apple's iPhone 5 in black is now available. Once users click on the link found in the email, it points them to http://{BLOCKED}ound.com/iphone5.gif.exe?leading?to the download of a malicious file.
Users are strongly?advised to take caution when clicking any link on emails even if these come from a supposedly trusted source.
SPAM BLOCKING DATE / TIME: June 08, 2011 GMT-8
TMASE INFO
- ENGINE:6.8
- PATTERN:8188