14 DAY TRIAL // The Independence Day is not only an important event for the US residents but also for the spammers from every corner of the world who want to lure users into their malicious attempts. As we expected, a powerful spam campaign is currently assaulting users' inboxes with a considerable number of messages encouraging the consumers to click on a link. Because the users might think that an ecard is waiting for them to view it, some of them are really clicking on the link, which represents the first wrong move in the spam campaign.
When the user visits the website included in the email, the page automatically installs the Troj/JSecard-A Trojan horse. Basically, this infected file is the opened door for another threat such as the Mal/Dorf-C Trojan. Most of the spam messages are named as "4th Of July Celebration", "Independence Day Party" or "Happy Birthday America".
"Cybercriminals have no qualms about taking advantage of celebrations like 4th July to infect innocent people's computers, and potentially steal their indentities. This isn't just an American problem - these kind of attacks strike around the world, and are designed to abuse PCs around the globe," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "People regularly send egreetings to friends and colleagues, so it is important that everyone is on their guard against these kind of attacks and ensures their computers are properly defended."
As usual, you're encouraged to keep your antivirus solution up to date with the latest virus definitions and try to avoid clicking on untrusted links delivered into your mail account. It's quite easy to discover a dangerous link attached to an email message because it contains an URL in the form of a numeric IP address, without any hostname.
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