Identity Theft News

Trojan attack with e-ticket attachment

Monday, January 26, 2009

A new spam email has an attachment that appears to be a new Trojan attack that uses a fake e-ticket receipt to infiltrate users' machines.

The email appears to come from either Northwest Airlines or United Airlines, and attempts to fool users into thinking plane tickets have been purchased with their credit card, Darkreading.com reports.

Attached to the email are Your_ETicket.zip or eTicket.zip, which is downloaded trigger Troj/Agent-IPS, a data-stealing Trojan horse, according to the article. It's the hope of hackers people may be so concerned about their credit card being charged, they won't think about opening an attachment from an email.

A similar spam email was detected last month by security officials and a broader scam was found in the middle of 2008.

Some security experts predicted financial-focused phishing attacks would increase as the economy worsened, with cybercriminals taking advantage of people's interest in saving money or with people's concern about their personal credit.

Websense released its bi-annual research report State of Internet Security last week and stated in the past six months, approximately 84 percent of emails were spam. The majority of them contained malicious links or attachments.ADNFCR-1765-ID-18992180-ADNFCR

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