Red Condor Warns of “Adobe Security Update” Malware Campaign
Email Campaign Uses Sophisticated Social Engineering in Attempt to Fool Recipients
ROHNERT PARK, CA–(Marketwire – May 4, 2010) – Red Condor currently released a notice of a brand new malware hazard crafted to crop up as an email thread deliberating vulnerabilities in Adobe software. The debate targets Adobe business and consists of a feign thread of forwarded emails which starts with a confidence refurbish summary from an worker in “Adobe Risk Management.” The debate warns recipients of a “Denial of Service Vulnerability” in the Adobe program and “strongly advises” which companies using the program refurbish their systems with the “latest confidence patch.”
But the many credible and potentially deleterious aspect of the debate is the have up of the forwarded thread, which is spoofed and customized per summary and recipient. The thread contains what crop up to be the full names and email addresses of people in aloft positions in the recipient’s organization, presumably a technique to have the summary and call to movement appear legitimate. Embedded in the physique of the email have been links to a PDF record which contains the refurbish instructions for the confidence patch, and an executable, which has been identified as a Trojan virus. Red Condor is the initial to acknowledge the malware campaign; the immeasurable infancy of AV engines unsuccessful to commend the antagonistic download.
“This worldly debate demonstrates the length scammers will go to get their emails past confidence so they can muster malware on gullible users’ systems,” pronounced Dr. Tom Steding, boss and CEO of Red Condor. “The email itself contains credible denunciation and appears to have already done it by bondage of authority at the victim’s company. Overall, it’s a credible debate which could be a poignant hazard if the summary volume increases.”
Red Condor advises recipients of the feign Adobe Security Update email to undo it rught away and not to click on the embedded PDF or web site links. The debate was rescued by Red Condor’s Spam Trigger filter. As with all threats prisoner by Red Condor, once identified, this debate has been quarantined and reviewed and manners have been created for involuntary placement to Red Condor’s anti-spam apparatus and Hosted Service customers.
Screen captures and images of debate accessible on request.
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