Mail Spam Unleashed Exploiting Osama bin-Laden’s Assassination
Cyber-criminals reportedly are unleashing malware scams using mail spam by exploiting the hot news of the assassination of Osama bin-Laden on May 1, 2011 via a Navy SEAL action of the United States inside an extravagant fortified house situated in Abbottabad (Pakistan), highlight security researchers and which EWeek.com published on May 8, 2011.
Citing an example, the researchers from F-Secure an anti-virus software company caution that malevolent mail spam campaigns are targeting several U.S government departments utilizing the theme of Osama bin-Laden's killing.
With the header "Courier who led U.S to Osama bin-Laden's hideout identified,' the malicious electronic mail spams contain a plain standard phrase "to whom it may concern."
There is also a file named Laden's Death.doc" attached in the e-mail spams that say the researchers contains an RTF attack code exploiting the CVE-2010-333 vulnerability of the heap overflow mail spam the kind that Microsoft fixed during November 2010 with a patch.