Don’t Click the Links In Fake CNN Alerts Email
Just a quick warning, I’ve been receiving these fake emails with ‘CNN Alerts’ in the subject title. Luckily Gmail was kind enough to place them in my spam box, so I didn’t open or click any of the links in the email. It looks like it’s been going on the past week and according to the article below:
Users who clicked on the “FULL STORY” link in the message were redirected to a fake CNN site, where they were told they needed to download an update to Flash Player, Adobe System Inc.’s popular Internet media player, to view a video clip from CNN.
Websense also said it had spotted traces of the campaign in blog spam.
If users agreed to download the bogus Flash update, they were trapped in an endless loop, where clicking “Cancel” in the initial dialog produced a second pop-up. Clicking “Cancel” there returned the user to the first pop-up. The only options at that point were for users to shut down the browser or give in and install the malware.
I might not have clicked the link, but if it were in my inbox I probably would have opened it. I tend to get a lot of emails from news sources. The Internet is a dangerous place. Be careful out there.
Fake-CNN spam mutates as attacks continue
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Joel on
Mon, 11th Aug 2008 10:48 am
Thanks Theo.
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