Viruses/Worms News

New phishing email found using Delta Airlines

Friday, March 6, 2009

A new phishing scam was found yesterday by a security firm involving emails that appeared to come from Delta Airlines as a confirmation of a ticket purchased by the user.

The message, which has the subject Confirmation of ticket purchase at www.delta.com, asks the user to download and print their Passenger Itinerary Receipt to their machine, which is an attachment in the email.

If a user downloads the attachment, a Trojan file will be placed on the computer which can reportedly avoid detection from antivirus products. As of yesterday afternoon, at least 3,000 examples were found of the email and the number increasing, according to the security firm that found the phishing attack.

Recently, a similar scam was found which also utilized Delta Airlines as an unknowing cyberculprit with a fake email campaign attempting to dupe users into thinking their credit card was charged for a flight.

The email told users to confirm their ticket purchase and asked to download a .zip file, which was found to be a Trojan, SCMagazineus.com reports. The file, named W32/Trojan2.FXRO, is similar to Zbot, a banking Trojan with the potential to commit identity theft by steal sensitive and personal information from infected machines.