Peaches Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 Rogue LinkedIn Emails Direct Users to Zbot Drive-By Download Rogue emails posing as LinkedIn alerts directs users to a malicious page, which attempts to infect them with a variant of the ZBot information stealing trojan.The spam campaign was launched yesterday and according to Cisco Security it was the largest such attack known to date, that targeted LinkedIn users. At one point, the fake emails accounted for well over 25% of the total spam traffic registered by the company's systems.The messages come with a subject of "LinkedIn Alert" and have their header spoofed to appear as originating from a [email protected] address. It appears that spammers have abused a legit LinkedIn email template in order to make the emails look more authentic, a technique we've seen used a lot this summer.Recipients are reminded of an invitation from a friend and are informed that two pending messages await their response. All links present in the emails have been modified to point to a malicious page. More detail here: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rogue-LinkedIn-Emails-Direct-Users-to-Zbot-Drive-By-Download-158490.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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