MX Systems Laboratory YouSendIt Capture Spam

Security researchers in the Belgian company email security MX lab report that cyber-criminals run two spam fraud using popular website called “YouSendIt” a specialist on the exchange of files and their distribution over the Internet. The researchers note that one of the scam e-mail is spam with the subject line “You have received a file from aleppotz rockypointinc @. Com through YouSendIt.” Moreover, it seems to identify the sender of the e-mail different depending on which name has been spoofed. It also proposes the body ie evidently an MP4 file with audio-format e-mail that readers can download from YouSendIt. But Internet links do not take users to the site instead of YouSendIt hxxp: / / carlaustiniii. org / x. html. Also according to the researchers, if you click on the URLs in a Mac computer so you can get a message saying “Wait four seconds ….” Experts believe that these spam messages that contain malicious code that may contaminate the user’s computer. Thereafter, the user is forwarded to a Canadian pharmacy website hxxp: / / spruce team. com /. At the same time, according to scam other e-mail recipients are told they have to run a malicious file on a file attachment. The name of this gadget YouSendIt_reader. zip. When unzipped, a file named YouSendIt_reader. exe so large as 20KB are available. Embedded a trojan virus attached to this Annex also be given different names in different security firm F-Secure, BitDefender, GData and called Gene Variant. Bredo. 2, while Microsoft calls Troy VideoDownloader: Win32/Waledac. C, say researchers from MX security laboratory. Softpedia. com reported this week in the 1 August 2010. Worryingly, according to MX Lab, its security researchers found that the combined strategies will increase as we have seen in recent months. In these strategies, e-mail takes users to a site containing malware and exploits. Thereafter, the user is sent to my expectation of a spam site that would realize a trojan infection on your computer. It is important to note that spammers spam campaigns mentioned two have used this strategy. But surely not be compromised, researchers have suggested that users continue to be very careful with all the files and links, says he got an email no matter how reliable it may seem.