April 27, 2008

Malware targets Oympic emails

by Brian Turner
MessageLabs has reported that it has identified at least thirteen different Olympic themed attacks, using email to try and fool users into downloading trojans. With legitimate-sounding email subject titles such as "The Beijing 2008 Torch Relay" and "National Olympic Committee and Ticket Sales Agents", some attacks purport to be from the International Olympic Committee, based in Lausanne Switzerland, however the reality is that all but one attack has been sent from ...