For the first 48 hours from the start of the campaign on the hacker's malicious links was taken over more than half a million users. The Eset company reported a massive spam attack in Skype. To disguise malicious attackers had links Google URL Shortener service.
Experts have documented a massive spam campaign in Skype and Gtalk. Attackers predlagaliperejti on the links and see the alluring photos. In fact, annexed to communications links lead to malware. For the first 48 hours from the start of the campaign on malicious links passed more than half a million users.
Suspicious links were masked by quite legal service Google URL Shortener to shorten long URLs, and a number of similar resources (bit.ly, Ow.LY and others). Only to addresses that begin with http://goo.gl/. has more than 490 thousand. users.
The worm functionality to provide an attacker with full access to the infected PC, download and run additional malicious files, as well as sending spam messages to the contacts of the infected machine. In addition, some modifications are aimed at stealing passwords from different services (social networking accounts, online banking, etc.).
At this point, the victims of this spam campaign became users around the world-most affected users in Germany, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and the United States. Presumably, cybercriminals send out messages in different languages, depending on the State, which greatly increased the effectiveness of the spam campaign.
According to the Google URL Shortener, 83% of all conversions performed from systems that are running Windows. The remaining 17% is divided between iOS, Mac OS X, Linux and BlackBerry.
Now most services to shorten URLs blocked malicious links, but cybercriminals still controlled bots can give instructions that will allow them to resume attacks in the future. According to bit.ly resource, most malicious navigation links using this service-more than 8000-happened in Germany.
Experts have documented a massive spam campaign in Skype and Gtalk. Attackers predlagaliperejti on the links and see the alluring photos. In fact, annexed to communications links lead to malware. For the first 48 hours from the start of the campaign on malicious links passed more than half a million users.
Suspicious links were masked by quite legal service Google URL Shortener to shorten long URLs, and a number of similar resources (bit.ly, Ow.LY and others). Only to addresses that begin with http://goo.gl/. has more than 490 thousand. users.
The worm functionality to provide an attacker with full access to the infected PC, download and run additional malicious files, as well as sending spam messages to the contacts of the infected machine. In addition, some modifications are aimed at stealing passwords from different services (social networking accounts, online banking, etc.).
At this point, the victims of this spam campaign became users around the world-most affected users in Germany, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and the United States. Presumably, cybercriminals send out messages in different languages, depending on the State, which greatly increased the effectiveness of the spam campaign.
According to the Google URL Shortener, 83% of all conversions performed from systems that are running Windows. The remaining 17% is divided between iOS, Mac OS X, Linux and BlackBerry.
Now most services to shorten URLs blocked malicious links, but cybercriminals still controlled bots can give instructions that will allow them to resume attacks in the future. According to bit.ly resource, most malicious navigation links using this service-more than 8000-happened in Germany.
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