zaterdag 29 september 2007

Interesting social engineering malware trick

I just stumbled on this interesting article about a scam that uses social engineering to trick people into downloading a trojan and running it.

The trick? People receive an email message with a video attached. The video does not appear to run, because of a missing video codec. (it actually *does* run, but shows a black screen for about 1 minute). A message appears with a link to the "missing codec", and users download it and install it.

Very clever, and another reminder to be extremely suspicious of email attachments.

3 opmerkingen:

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the video worked for me.

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