Bastille Day malware spammed out to French computer users !!!!

[INDRANIL]

July 14th is a big day in the French calendar as it celebrates the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in 1789. Concerts and parades are held to celebrate La Fête Nationale, marking what is considered the birth of the modern French nation.July 14th is just a couple of days away, of course. But that doesn't mean that there isn't still time to decide what you're going to do if you want to celebrate Bastille Day. It doesn't mean that there's not an opportunity for malware authors to take advantage.

Here's one of a wave of spam messages being sent out to French email addresses, and intercepted by the experts in SophosLabs-



Subject: Bastille Day

Attached file: BastilleDay.rar

Message body:
Bastille Day activities .See the attachment.

The attachment is, of course, malicious.

Inside the RAR archive attached to the emails is a file called

short-BASTIL_1.SCR

which has a text Notepad icon. That will be enough to probably fool many people into believing that it is a harmless text file.

Opening the SCR file (which Sophos detects as Troj/Mdrop-DPB) drops another file called WindowsUpdate.exe onto your computer and displays the following message in Notepad.

This is clearly designed to continue the illusion that you have only opened a harmless TXT file.

Keep Reading and make yourself secure . Have a nice day .


More & Source .

[Neo]

thx for heads up

[INDRANIL]

Welcome . Innocent notepad icon and you boom . Uncheck "Hide extension for known file types" or Disable it . It will help .

[Bearcat]

Spammers better be careful here, or the French may bring back "La Guillotine" and have their heads.

[INDRANIL]

O yeah Bearcat .