Scumbags punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure
With a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.
The contemptible junk mail messages attempt to panic recipients into opening email attachment supposedly carrying images of abducted infants but in reality loaded with a variant of the Resex information stealing Trojan.
Net security firm Sophos reports that the malicious emails come with subject lines such as "We have hijacked your baby" and claim a $50,000 reward is needed for the child's safe return. Images of the email can be found here
Lucre-loving malware authors have few scruples using national or internal disasters or fictitious news events - up to and including the supposed outbreak of World War III - to punt their wares. But even by these debased standards, the Resex Trojan lure represents a new low.
Fortunately, few people have thus far fallen for the trick. Sophos said that incidents of infection by the Trojan remain, well, low.
Scumbags punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure | The Register
With a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.
The contemptible junk mail messages attempt to panic recipients into opening email attachment supposedly carrying images of abducted infants but in reality loaded with a variant of the Resex information stealing Trojan.
Net security firm Sophos reports that the malicious emails come with subject lines such as "We have hijacked your baby" and claim a $50,000 reward is needed for the child's safe return. Images of the email can be found here
Lucre-loving malware authors have few scruples using national or internal disasters or fictitious news events - up to and including the supposed outbreak of World War III - to punt their wares. But even by these debased standards, the Resex Trojan lure represents a new low.
Fortunately, few people have thus far fallen for the trick. Sophos said that incidents of infection by the Trojan remain, well, low.
Scumbags punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure | The Register
