TrendLabs received a recent spammed message that uses fake news about the death of Hollywood celebrities and famous athletes. The spam came in two varieties: one has a .ZIP file attachment that contains the malicious file news.exe that is detected as TROJ_DLDER.AU. TROJ_DLDER.AU connects to a certain URL to, in turn, download TROJ_BREDOLAB.XY. The other [...]
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Fake Celebrity Deaths Used in Malicious Spam Run
