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Breakfast malware at Tiffany’s? Trojan horses spammed out widely

A posting from Naked Security : Did you open your email inbox this morning to find an email like the following?

Kindly open to see export License and payment invoice attached, meanwhiole we sent the balance payment yesterday.
Please confirm if it has settled in your account or you can call if there is any problem.

Thanks
Karen parker

 

Whatever you do, don’t open the file attached to the email.

Contained inside the file invoice copy.zip is a malicious Trojan horse, designed to compromise your computer.

Sophos products detect the malware proactively as Mal/BredoZp-B, but users of other vendors’ products should check that their software is fully up-to-date and defending against the threat.

 

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Top 10 Countries Sending Spam (Jul 19-Jul 25)

Interesting information from ISCALabs:

Though the top four positions remained the same last week compared to the week before, Brazil continues to slowly account for a larger percentage of the spam pie. Russia and the United States had larger than usual gains (up 1.2% and 1.4% respectively) according to data collected by ICSA Labs. The increase for the United States was enough to move that country into the 5th position among the Top 10 Countries Sending Spam. See who else rounds out the top 10. Also see the graphrepresenting spam percentages over the last several months for many of the top spam sending nations.