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Angelina Jolie is the bait in spam emails

Thu 24 Jul 2008 09:13:34 AM UTC — Deborah S.

My junk mailbox includes a number of interesting offers and a newly popular one tries to entice me to see pictures and videos of actress Angelina Jolie in various states of undress. The URL in the spam email is linked to an executable file which IT security firm BitDefender has identified as Trojan malware.

A ScanSafe study released a few days ago indicated malware attacks increased 278% in the first half of 2008. Cybercriminals are getting creative, often using popular celebrities as bait, so resist the urge to click and pay attention to the WOT icons next to those links.

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    • MysteryFCM on Wed 30 Jul 2008
    • 08:37:15 AM UTC

    Deborah, Are these e-mails

    Deborah,
    Are these e-mails related to the following by any chance?

    http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/forums/index.php?...

    The current file being malvertised via e-mail is default.html
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      • Deborah S. on Thu 31 Jul 2008
      • 12:09:17 PM UTC

      Celebrity trojan

      I'm not sure if they are connected, but an IT Management article says that Panda labs reports the Angelina Jolie email is a scam to spread Agent.IMB Trojab. The http://internationalacademy.blogspot.com/2008/07/beware-of-a... identified it as Trojan.Agent.AGGZ.
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    • mm5066 on Mon 04 Aug 2008
    • 05:57:46 PM UTC

    I get alot in my Yahoo mail

    I am looking at my Yahoo Mail account and I see 5 or more of these emails. I delete this garb anyway just wish the spam would slow down. Man 365 messages and 255 in the filtered spam folder, I checked my mail 3 days ago.