Fraudulent spam about CNN.com

[YoKenny]

August 8, 2008

 

Fraudulent spam about CNN.com

 

Posted: 07:45 PM ET

 

Earlier this week, a spam message purporting to be from CNN began circulating the Internet. We decided to blog about this to alert those of you who hadn?t yet received it to be on the lookout for it; and also to assure those of you who did receive it that the message was NOT, in fact, from CNN.

 

As you may know, spammers often disguise or forge the source of their e-mail to give recipients the impression that the message derived from another system, especially one tied to a recognizable brand. In this instance, the spammer chose to use the CNN brand.

http://behindthescenes.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...am-about-cnncom

[Corona]

So, no one's at risk, really. I mean, comon'. CNN.

[YoKenny]

So, no one's at risk, really. I mean, comon'. CNN.

I'd be at risk trying to not babble while shaking their hands:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/lapin.nicole.html

http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporte...ake.maggie.html

[hazelnut]

Had a one of these emails each day for 4 days now.

 

Straight in the bin

[Augeas]

Jeez, I'm getting dozens of the exceedingly annoying bu**ers.

[Humpty]

I let the CNN email come through and followed the link which asks you to download the latest flash player.

 

Virus Total

 

An application.exe named adobe_flash is then downloaded which will unload malware if executed.