Scumbags punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure
A new low
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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. ®
COMMENTS
I like to blindly click the links and see what happens because I am a mac user.
I knew Macs came with an IQ cap ;P
cheap antivirus solution...
...use a spelling and or grammar checker.
...just checking if my baby (ie. cattleprod) is still in the coat pocket where i left it.
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