The telecommunications regulator of South Korea alerted that a malicious spam campaign, by capitalizing on Kim Jong-il's death who was the Workers Party of Korea's general secretary in North Korea, is striking users' mailboxes. Help Net Security published this, December 20, 2011.
Security investigators discovered spam mails having captions referring to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's demise. The e-mails exhibit a .pdf file as an attachment, which's labeled brief_introduction_of_kim-jong-il.pdf.pdf that's actually malevolent as well as has been identified as TROJ_PIDIEF.EGQ.
Moreover, when taken down and run, it produces one non-malevolent PDF file that has information and picture of the deceased leader so that the actual activity of the malicious PDF is concealed on the users' PCs.
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