Airline ticket e-mail scam
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Traveling by air this holiday season? Beware of email scams involving .zip attachments.
The latest malicious email uses the catchy "airline ticket and an ominous mention of a credit card balance" hook and "appears to come from legitimate major airlines including Delta, JetBlue, Continental, American Airlines and Virgin America."
Why be scared?
"The malware associated with this spam run is a Trojan downloader that’s typically used to drop other malicious programs on an infected machine. It was previously used in e-mail scams related to fake UPS invoices."
Best bet: never ever open email attachments.
The latest malicious email uses the catchy "airline ticket and an ominous mention of a credit card balance" hook and "appears to come from legitimate major airlines including Delta, JetBlue, Continental, American Airlines and Virgin America."
Why be scared?
"The malware associated with this spam run is a Trojan downloader that’s typically used to drop other malicious programs on an infected machine. It was previously used in e-mail scams related to fake UPS invoices."
Best bet: never ever open email attachments.
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- Airlines, malware, email scams, Holiday Travel
