Your private photos are there for anyone to see. why?? – fake picture malware

  • 17 March 2014
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Your private photos are there for anyone to see  is another one from the current Androm runs  probably from ASprox botnet which try to drop  dofoil cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than they do from consumers.
Almost all of these have a password stealing component, with the aim of stealing your email or FTP ( web space) log in credentials. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your facebook and other social network log in details.
 
"Sorry to disturb you.
Someone sent me thee pictures they seem to be from you and your boyfriend I’m
really troubled by this why do you send
your private naked photos around?? this is beyound my understanding. It’s in
attachment"
 
Current Virus total detections: 4/50
 
This Your private photos are there for anyone to see is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected.
All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email. Whether it is a message saying “look at this picture of me I took last night” and it appears to come from a friend or is more targeted at somebody who regularly is likely to receive PDF attachments or Word .doc attachments or any other common file that you use every day. Be very careful when unzipping them and make sure you have “show known file extensions enabled“, And then look carefully at the unzipped file. If it says .EXE then it is a problem and should not be run or opened.
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