Fake Swine Flu Emails Lead to Malware! December 4
Be warned against an unscrupulous e-mail that masquerades as having been sent by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This latest scam joins the ranks of counterfeit Tamiflu ads as well as other ads advocating various products that can allegedly offer protection against swine flu.
The supposed e-mail from the CDC looks legitimate enough and calls for the recipient to create a “personal H1N1 (swine flu) vaccination profile on the cdc.gov website.” As is to be expected of these types of modus operandi, a link to the supposed profile-creation page is conveniently provided.
The link provided in the e-mail will reportedly take the user to a fake CDC Web page. The actual Web address indicated in the e-mail will lead one to think that the site is operated by CDC.gov; there is, however, a hidden portion in the address that yields the actual location of the site – Belgium.
A spokesman for the CDC, Tom Skinner, has confirmed that the site and the e-mail are both fake, and the Center has plans of posting a statement on their official website in order to warn people against falling prey to the hoax.
The fake e-mail is also featured in a post on the PrintCountry blog, which says that following the link to the vaccination profile will run an executable file that contains a copy of the Kryptik Trojan. The Trojan reportedly has the ability to create “a security-free gateway on your system” which will then allow it to “download and install additional malware without your authorization.” Perhaps more critical is the fact that the malware will allow a hacker to take complete control of your computer as it is able to log typed keystrokes and send confidential personal and financial data to a remote hacker.
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