Journalists shot in Georgia
Tags: Malware Spam
We are seeing millions of these emails containing a malware payload. The subject is more "Headline News" spam, but all the messages contain the same zip file Georgia.zip which has one file inside, joined.exe, which they claim is a photo, (and somehow uses a photo icon in Windows), but of course it is more malware. Here is a sample:
SpamSentinel caught this as an Unnamed Virus, meaning our anti-spam filters detected it as a zero-hour threat. This is good because it is password protected to avoid traditional anti-virus detection.
We are seeing millions of these emails containing a malware payload. The subject is more "Headline News" spam, but all the messages contain the same zip file Georgia.zip which has one file inside, joined.exe, which they claim is a photo, (and somehow uses a photo icon in Windows), but of course it is more malware. Here is a sample:
SpamSentinel caught this as an Unnamed Virus, meaning our anti-spam filters detected it as a zero-hour threat. This is good because it is password protected to avoid traditional anti-virus detection.
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