Warning About ZeuS Attack Used as Lure
Summary: Criminals copied the first few paragraphs of a Krebs on Security column about ZeuS Trojan attacks on government and military systems and emailed them as spam to lure recipients into downloading the same Trojan disguised as a Microsoft security update. Sophos spotted the campaign, and researcher Jeffrey Carr said a similar spam run mimicking the .mil and .gov Zeus attacks was made to look like it came from his own email address.
Bottom line: The lure worked by borrowing the credibility of a security journalist's own reporting, and Carr's case shows the same technique can put a named researcher's address on the attack - a reputation problem that lands on the person whose warning is being reused.
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