According to researchers from Symantec the security company, spammers are utilizing false reports of epidemic within their most recent destructive e-mail campaign.
Displaying "Epidemics in [location]" as the subject line, the sender of the spam mail warning tells that even though the government may deny the truth, there's one fresh epidemic spreading across the [location]. Thereafter, he states that he became aware of it from people he closely knows who're currently staying there. Thus instructions are provided in the e-mail on ways of avoiding the infection, the writer indicates.
But rather than get the instructions about the method for remaining safeguarded, the e-mail recipients get diverted onto a website, which produces malware that the vendor for protective software detected as Trojan.Malscript, which abuses known security flaws as well as conducts heap spraying.
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