Spam email: “Is Steve Jobs Really Dead?”. Beware!
News about the death of Steve Jobs has been exploited by cyber-criminals by sending spam emails associated with this incident. The spam email has a subject like “Steve Jobs: Not Dead Yet!“, “Is Steve Jobs Really Dead?“, “Steve Jobs Alive!“, or “Steve Jobs Not Dead!“.
Clicking on the link provided will take the user to a site that has installed a number of exploits part of BlackHole exploit that will download and execute malware.
When executed, the malware will download other files and in a minute will make the victim’s machine as a spam machine:
Some malicious links provided in the email:
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Currently the detection rate is very low, only 3 of 43 antivirus able to detect this malware. Emsisoft Anti-Malware detects this malware as Trojan.Win32.Spambot.
