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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Summary:
Do you know on a daily basis two million website are poisoned by online threats. In this more than 50% of the threats move to a different destination periodically. The sad part is if a user is visiting to one of the websites even without clicking anything he can lose his personal information.
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