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Sophos Warns Of Bogus Berlusconi Email
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2006-08-17
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Sophos has warned of another widespread bogus email containing a Trojan Horse.
This particular one has been disguised as a breaking news report that Silvio Berlusconi has been killed by an Israeli soldier.
The spam contains the Troj/Dloadr-ALM Trojan horse and contains a From line of "bbc.italy2006@bbc.com". There have been several subject lines used such as "Berlusconi la morte", "Berlusconi di terrorismo", "Berlusconi Tragedia", and "Berlusconi di omicidio".
Sophos provides a sample of what such an email would look like:
Latest BBC News: Berlusconi was killed by Israeli soldier, Lyvian terrorist.
''Fare politica significa realizzare cose concrete''
"Ho scelto di scendere in campo e di occuparmi della cosa pubblica perch? non voglio vivere in un Paese illiberale, governato da forze immature e da uomini legati a doppio filo a un passato politicamente ed economicamente fallimentare. Mai come in questo momento l'Italia ha bisogno di persone con la testa sulle spalle e di esperienza consolidata, creative ed innovative, capaci di darle una mano, di far funzionare lo Stato ".
Silvio Berlusconi, "Per il mio Paese"
SOPPORTATO: 26 gennaio 1954 MORTO: 22 gennaio 2006
The email comes with a file attachment named necfotos.zip, which contains a malicious PIF file (silvio02.pif). Obviously you'll want to avoid opening the email.
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