Scamming: Fake Amazon Order Confirmation with servers hosted in Kenya, Germany, Brazil and the US.
This recent campaign recently
intercepted aims to infect users with exploit kit. This means if you click on
this link, you will be redirect
to a malicious domain that aims to infect people with BlackHole.
to a malicious domain that aims to infect people with BlackHole.
The fake notifications, which
appear to confirm the order of 55” TVs associated with brands ranging from
Sony, LG and Samsung to Vizio, Akai, Panasonic, Sanyo and Toshiba, fail to
deliver television sets, but do deliver malware via BlackHole.
‘’This piece of malware attempts to exploit
vulnerabilities on the user’s PC to push malicious code depending on the system
weakness it finds.
The order appears to have been
placed on May 29 and provides buyers with an estimated delivery date set
sometime between May 30 and May 31, 2013. All e-mails are addressed to buyers
with delivery addresses all across the United States, including Los Altos, PA,
Annandale, AK, Salem, DC, Pasadena, PA, Santa Barbara, WA, Cohoes, NE and more.’’
Reported, Loredana Botezatu
Finally scammers also run a recycled old PayPal
payment receipt scam to also cover the millions of PayPal accounts
owners with their bogus e-mails.