Pandalabs spotted yesterday a bunch of nearly 3000 hits of email messages containing Microsoft Update KB910721 which seems to be a virus in an email attachment. The email projects itself to be from Microsoft Support Team containing Outlook recent update and the steps to install it. The fake security patch attached in the email is a zip file contains Bredolab.Y virus.
If you run this file, the virus will get itself silently installed and also its bringing a friend in their family called SecurityTool, a Rogue Antivirus. Similar flavor of this kind had been got caught in the mid 2009 with the same KB article. One thing you have to stick it in your mind is that “Microsoft will never send you any updates or patches to your email”.
Courtesy: Panda Security
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."
Beware of Spam Emails which arrives in your inbox bannering itself as an Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook which offers KB910721 executable file BUT ACTUALLY ITS NOT. We can be easily spoofed by that website design as it will be somewhat similar to the Original Microsoft Web Layout.
These Spam Emails will be seen as official looking one (screenshot below) and it will arrive to your Inbox using one of these Subject Lines:
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