msnbc.com – BREAKING NEWS
August 13, 2008 4 Comments
If you have received a similar message like the one below, please be advised that this is a new version of the “CNN trojan” that is reported earlier on the MX Lab blog.
Subject start with msnbc.com – BREAKING NEWS and can contain the following:
Google launches free music downloads in China
Plane crashes into prep school, hundreds of kids killed
Please give your opinions for change
US Dollar hits 6-year high, further gains expected
….. and many more
The URL leads you to a web site where you can view the CNN video report but instead asks you to download a suitable Flash player – the file adobe_flash.exe file – that is in fact a trojan. The URL in question can be anything and changes a lot. We also noticed that in some messages IP addresses are being used.
msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: Google launches free music downloads in China
Find out more at http://breakingnews.msnbc.com <http://www.***********.com/up.html>
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See the top news of the day at MSNBC.com, and the latest from Today Show and NBC Nightly News.=========================================
This e-mail is never sent unsolicited. You have received this MSNBC Breaking News Newsletter
newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you.
To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this
message was forwarded to you) simply go to
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50903113 <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36611396> , select unsubscribe, enter the
email address receiving this message, and click the Go button.Microsoft Corporation – One Microsoft Way – Redmond, WA 98052
MSN PRIVACY STATEMENT
http://privacy.msn.com (http://privacy.msn.com/> <http://privacy.msn.com/> )
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Any one who clicks on links in emails they are not 100% certain come from a legit source is a moron. In nature the dumbest & weakest gets picked off and this is being replicated on the internet. Do us all a favour & don’t use a PC if you’re that stupid.
I have been receiving these emails as text messages on my cell phone for several days. If you do a Google search for “msnbc.com – BREAKING NEWS”, you will find the same messages posted as blog entries on many sites.
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