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Fake Fernando Alonso Accident Spam Surfaces

Jul 22, 2008
Story Timeline:  83 days

It is used to propagate a banking Trojan By: George Craciun, Security News Editor According to Panda Security, a company specialized in providing security software solutions, a new spam campaign has been launched with the purpose of infecting users' machines with a banking Trojan which identified by the previously mentioned firm as Trj/Banker.LGC. People in the English speaking part of the world will probably not be targeted, since the message is written in Spanish. "We have just discovered another spam message used to fool users into installing a new banking Trojan. This time it passes itself off as if it were a real piece of news from El Pais, one of the major newspapers in Spain. It is about a car accident that would have taken place today in Bilbao and where Fernando Alonso, the two-time Formula 1 world champion has been... [read full story]                    

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