Australian cricket team email attack

Emails with subject lines ‘Australian cricket team fighting for one day rankings’ and ‘Paraglider surviving storm in NSW’ have been spotted by the vendor’s Sydney-based threat analysts.

The threat is designed to capture user activity by monitoring browser activity and re-directing users to a malicious URL which contains an error message stating ‘page is not available due to traffic’, according to a SurfControl email advisory.

It then attempts to automatically download Trojans, which then download several other files.

The news follows a similar threat that emerged yesterday with the subject line ‘Prime Minister has had a heart attack’. Rob Forsyth, managing director at security vendor Sophos, said hackers have recycled yesterday’s malicious URL.

“It’s interesting but peculiar that the URL found yesterday is now advertising a block of units in Turkey. “It is now infecting computers in different areas, not sure as yet where this is intended to go,” he said.

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