VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 09:26:10 01/17/04 Sat
Author: Scammer
Subject: Media: Hackers go all out with PayPal spam phishing scam Trojan

Hackers go all out with PayPal spam phishing scam Trojan

January 16 2004

by Jo Best

Full marks for effort

E-mail to a friend

Printer friendly

Reader Comments

Post your comment here





A new virus has been found in the wild that manages to combine users' favourite bugbears - spam, phishing, PayPal scams and viruses - in one handy malware package.

The virus arrives via an email, which is thought to have been distributed through the usual spamming channels, that purports to come from eBay's online-payment service, with the subject "PAYPAL.COM NEW YEAR OFFER". The email text goes on to explain that users can get their hands on a few bob if they register with the site by - surprise, surprise - handing over their financial details.


If the recipient opens the email attachment and launches the file it contains, the Trojan will download and run a new variant of the Mimail virus, Mimail N, which started doing the rounds last week. The virus goes on to harvest more email addresses from the user's hard drive and sends itself out every time the user opens Windows.

The virus is thought to be the work of Russian virus writers, as the site that the virus is downloaded from and the 'PayPal' forms sent back to originates in that country.

The change in virus-writing strategy could be an attempt by writers to bypass unwitting users' virus protection, but antivirus firm Sophos has advised companies to block executable code that arrives via email so that the virus is killed before it reaches users.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.