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Zeus Malware Distributed via Terror-Themed Spam
Spammers are notorious for latching on to the most recent trend in an effort to increase click rates. Recently, a spam campaign containing Zeus malware utilized recent concerns over terrorism to send messages which appeared to be sent by the Department of Homeland Security, TSA and DoD.
Researchers at Sophos Labs have discovered the low-yield campaign which targets government users with enticing subjects like “Report on Defending and Operating in…
Malware Hits Jerusalem Post
Published on 8 Jun, 2010 at 10:15 in Cloud | Viewed 51 times | No Comments
Yesterday, hackers compromised the website of the Jerusalem Post by planting malicious coding into the website so that it would distribute malware to visitors. A researcher at Sophos Labs was one of the first to find the exploit.
“Initially, I suspected that the malware was loaded via a compromised advert stream or one of the popups from the site,” writes Paul Baccas, a virus researcher with Sophos. “However, upon…
