Fake News of Eminem’s Death Leads to Malware

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Jun27

Fake News of Eminem’s Death Leads to Malware

10:30 pm (UTC-7) | by Maydalene Salvador (Anti-spam Research Engineer) We recently saw some articles on the Web saying that Slim Shady aka Eminem died in a car crash. Today, we received a spammed message that still claims the rumor is true. The email pretends to be from CBS News informing the recipient of the news about Eminem’s alleged car crash. It also asks if the user wants to see more information about it. A link is provided in the email to show the user the supposed video. Instead of the video, however, the link redirects to a site that downloads an executable file.

Details & screenshots related to this attack. - http://blog.trendmicro.com/