Hackers Using Middle East Fears To Push Trojan Attack
Hackers are spamming out e-mails with fraudulent news about a war breaking out in the Middle East involving the United States, Iran, and Israel in an attempt to trick people into downloading Trojans.
Daniel Wesemann, a handler at the Internet Storm Center, reported in the site's online daily diary Sunday that the spam is coming with .exe files attached. The hackers are using social engineering to lure people into opening the e-mails with the malicious attachments by using subject lines about war breaking out or the United States bombing Iran.
Subject lines include: "USA Just Have Started World War III"; "Missile Strike: The USA kills more then 20000 Iranian citizens"; "Israel Just Have Started World War III"; and "USA Missile Strike: Iran War just have started."
The actual e-mail body is blank, but the attachments have names like movie.exe, video.exe, clickhere.exe, and readmore.exe.
