New Spam Malware Real Footage of Malaysian Flight MH 17 Shot Down
The tragedy of the crashed Malaysia
Airlines flight MH17 is no exception for the criminal minds. They are
exploiting the disaster that took place last week in the disputed
territory.
A distasteful trend among the cyber crooks have began these days that they left no occasion, either good or bad, to snatch users’ financial information in order to make money as well as spread malware to victimize users.
The bogus Facebook pages were came out to be click fraudsters, in which the site visitors are served a link to a phony website containing detailed information about the MH17 plane crash. Once clicked, users are then hit with a series of pop-up ads for online gambling sites and other shady services. The pages have since been shut down by Facebook , but this doesn’t stop scammers.
A distasteful trend among the cyber crooks have began these days that they left no occasion, either good or bad, to snatch users’ financial information in order to make money as well as spread malware to victimize users.
Boeing
777 aircraft carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew members, that was shot
down over eastern Ukraine on July 17 by a ground-to-air missile. So
far, its unclear that who is behind the tragic incident, while Ukraine
and the insurgents blamed each other.
Within just a week, at least six bogus Facebook pages that popped up the
names of the Boeing 777 victims. According to the Australia’s Sydney
Morning Herald, three of the fraudulent pages were created in the names
of children who were on the plane and died.
The bogus Facebook pages were came out to be click fraudsters, in which the site visitors are served a link to a phony website containing detailed information about the MH17 plane crash. Once clicked, users are then hit with a series of pop-up ads for online gambling sites and other shady services. The pages have since been shut down by Facebook , but this doesn’t stop scammers.
People who desires to watch the MH17 Flight’s shot down video, it will
lead users downloading malware into their systems or potentially
unwanted applications (PUPs), similar to what we have seen in many other
spam campaigns of the types.
This is neither the first nor will be the last attempt of cyber criminals to leverage the tragedy of MH17 Malaysian airliner.
Last week, cyber crooks used Twitter platform to widely spread short
links that directed victims to the web pages known to have been linked
with a variant of Zeus Trojan and the Sality malware as well, in order
to steal financial information of the victims and to infect their
systems with the malwares.
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