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Waledac Wanna Help You Survive The Crisis!

 

February 24, 2009

After the Valentine’s Day spam attack, Waledac now wants to help you survive the economic crisis.  A new spamming template used by Waledac is pretending to offer you sale coupons at a discount of up to 95%. But what’s new about this social engineering tactic is that it uses IP Address Geolocation to create a page localized to the reader, thus increasing its appeal.

 

 

The images and any of the links from the webpage will point you to a Waledac malware executable file. So, if your inbox has tiny little messages similar to this, be wary indeed:

 

 
 

 

MailMarshal customers are protected from this spam campaign with SpamCensor 310.


Last Reviewed: February 24, 2009 by Rodel Mendrez