Fake Credit Card Alert Seeks Your Information
Identity TheftThis story serves as a reminder to always verify communications that ask for your personal data.
Trojan blitz poses as credit card warning. Businesses in the United Kingdom faced a barrage of 115,000 e-mails containing a new Trojan on Friday, January 20, before anti-virus vendors scrambled out an update, according to e-mail filtering firm BlackSpider Technologies. The Trojan downloader malware — called Agent-ADO — comes in the payload to a message that poses as a warning about a user’s credit card limits being exceeded. BlackSpider detected the malware at 9:10 a.m. GMT Friday, January 20. But it was three-and-a-half hours before the first anti-virus vendor used by BlackSpider issued a patch, once again illustrating the shortcomings of conventional anti-virus scanners in fighting fast-moving virus outbreaks. Infected emails commonly have the subject line “ERROR:YOUR CREDIT CARD OVERDRAFT EXCEED!” and an infected attachment, a packed executable file called FILE1185 which is 5592 bytes long. Analysis of the malware is ongoing. System administrators are encouraged to set up rules to block the malware at the gateway. Virus writers commonly use networks of compromised PCs to seed infection over a short space of time but the ferocity of the latest attack is unusual.
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