FYI...

Airlines - infected ticket invoices...
Attachment contains same Trojan horse that stole 1.6M records from Monster.com last year
- http://preview.tinyurl.com/66ayhz
July 28, 2008 (Computerworld) - "Several airlines, including Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., have warned customers that bogus e-mails posing as ticket invoices contain malware and urged them to immediately delete the messages. A researcher at McAfee Inc. confirmed the campaign in a post to the company's blog*. The e-mails, which purport to be from an airline, thank the recipient for using a new "Buy flight ticket Online" service on the airline's site, provide a log-in username and password, and say the person's credit card has been charged an amount usually in the $400 range. An attachment claims to be the invoice for the ticket and credit card charge..."
* http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/ind...m-takes-flight/

More...
- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001477.html
July 30, 2008 - "... Today when we saw a large spam run sending out fake JetBlue etickets... The mail contains a ZIP file that contains the file eTicket#1721.exe which we detect as Trojan-Spy:W32/Zbot.QO. The malware itself tries to steal usernames and passwords to online banks..."
(Screenshot available at the F-secure URL above.)

- http://www.us-cert.gov/current/#airline_e_...et_email_attack
July 31, 2008



This post has been edited by AplusWebMaster: Aug 5 2008, 04:29 AM