4th of July – US Independence Day. Waledac Spam Campaigns started to spread accross the web through emails. This is the same worm which hit badly on Obama inauguration and in Valentine’s day. It comes to your Inbox with the following:
Subject Line: “Light up the sky”
Body Message: “American Independence Day”
This spam will show user an YouTube video and when the user clicks on the link, it offers to download an .EXE file instead of displaying the video. Even before the celebration started the email campaign says that “Colorful Independence Day events took place throughout the country”. Microsoft detects this Spam File as Trojan:Win32/Waledac.gen!A. This new binary comes with no real Antivirus Detection with Virus Total results like this: Result: 4/41 (9.76%).
This is beecause unfortunately, the Anti-virus products start to detect a virus when enough people complain about it. In this case, because the virus hasn’t been spammed yet, almost no one has complained, and as a result, almost no one knows that it is a virus. By the time the virus begins to spread on Saturday evening of a holiday weekend, we have to see how many anti-virus engineers will be writing a definition to rescue and remove the threat.
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Sophos, a computer security firm issued a warning on Thursday, 02nd July that a mass email claiming to contain latest photos and secret songs of Michael Jackson.
This email contains the following Subject Line as "Remembering Michael Jackson" and it is claimed to be coming from sarah(at)michaeljackson(dot)com
The email tells recipients that an attached file titled "Michael songs and pictures.zip" contains secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson, the pop music icon who died in United States on June 25.
Sophos advised users not to open the email as the computer users will be exposed to the infection and will in turn automatically spread the worm to other internet users. This virus will also exploit itself to USB Storage device as an Autorun Component. Sophos said that many computer users likely to be moved in opening up the attachment because of the interest in the King of Pop’s sudden death.
"Anyone who receives this email should delete it immediately to save themselves the embarrassment of infecting their email contacts."
