Geo-located malware appears over the horizon Malware authors have incorporated technology designed to find the geographic location of prospective marks as a tactic to enable more convincing social engineering scams. A new variant of the Waledac worm uses an email message claiming a "dirty bomb" explosion in order to tempt the gullible into visiting a maliciously- …
Just got it. Opened the email on my Linux system with Firefox and NoScript, and it reads as follows:
"Powerful explosion burst in this morning.
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded in a bomb blast near market in . Authorities suggested that..."
Nice try.
Well lately I have been getting stuff that was written by some who seems like they are a native English speaker . But they have tale tale signs. Like saying they are an American business man but use British spelling . Hmmm why are spelling it colour, tyre . My favorite is when they clearly have no knowledge the region . Classic craigs list scam. I need some to house sit and collect money from( yes he said from instead of for. Its the little things that trip them up ) me. Then he sent my a generic picture of a house . Only one problem house in San Francisco rarely have parking on both side of the street . The road looks like its regular maintained. Any one in the area would fall out laughing seeing what suppose to be a house in SF with grass gowning in the front lawn . Well unless its the kind you smoke . The kicker was the huge back yard with a pool.
Adobe claims over 90% market penetration of its Flash Player, right? Yet it's so easy to trick people into installing Flash Player those days. Makes me wonder, if it really is over 90% machines with Player installed? Or is it much less, causing people install it again and again.
Paris, cause she'd get higher click-through rate than any 'splosion, atomic or otherwise.
Trojan hosted at bestbreakingfree.com, where traceroute is denied after reaching level3 in dallas:
traceroute to bestbreakingfree.com (66.169.149.225)
13 CHARTER-COM.edge4.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.71.216.26)
14 66.169.96.250 (66.169.96.250)
I'm surprised the website is still up and running actually, given the amount of time it's been going by now. Someone isn't paying attention.
The story with really REALLY bad English, with a copied Reuters logo at the top:
Powerful explosion burst in [insert city] this morning.
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded in a bomb blast near market in [insert city]. Authorities suggested that explosion was caused by "dirty" bomb. Police said the bomb was detonated from close by using electric cables. "It was awful" said the eyewitness about blast that he heard from his shop. "It made the floor shake. So many people were running"
Until now there has been no claim of responsibility.
I mean, that English is worse than many of the comments here. It HURTS to read it!
A huge dirty bomb has exploded in a tiny and insignificant town in N. Ireland. Yeah, believable. Doubly so since mad middle eastern types wont attack their "mates" in the local terrorists. Money from America > Irish Terrorists > Middle eastern terrorists (who use it to attack US interests) , the world has a poetic sheen to it some days.
And apart from our local godtards, NI must be the safest place on the planet.
Always Tux.
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