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Nuclear explosion spam targets Australia


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Australians are being targeted by a spam campaign claiming Australia has been hit by a large scale nuclear explosion.

 

The spam campaign, reported by IT News, contains an attachment in a ZIP file. The spam says that the attachment contains images of the attack; in reality, the attachment is a virus designed to steal information from your PC once you load it.

 

Graham Cluley, technology consultant for network security firm Sophos, says that the potential catastrophe of a nuclear attack could trick users into loading the attachment without thinking.

 

"Rather than use a real life event, the hackers have turned to fictional explosions and conspiracy theories in the hope they will strike a nerve with potential victims who will then click on the attachment without a second thought," said Cluley.

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No doubt another wave of the antivrus2008 malware gang documented here:

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=17699

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