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Pedro Bueno is a Security and Malware Researcher at McAfee Labs for almost 5 years. He also has a volunteer job at the SANS ...

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McAfee Labs :

'Fun World'? Not Really

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 11:22am by Pedro Bueno
Pedro Bueno

The latest round of the Nuwar/Zhelatin virus gave up the social-engineering technique of fake postcards. Now they are sending you a fake welcome letter to “Fun World” with your username and password!

This one is not using a target approach, like mixing the e-mail with the fake username, but it may only be a question of time before we start to see it.

Here’s an example of such an approach:

——————————————-
Greetings,

Here is your membership info for Fun World.

Membership Number: 4659948744
Login ID: user6614
Temp Password ID: gr952

Please change your login and change your login information.

This link will allow you to securely change your login info: http://xx.xx.xx.xx

Welcome,
Support Department
Fun World
—————————————————————————

Fun world? Nah, don’t bet on it.

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  • Jim August 21, 2007 11:36AM

    Yet another variant that I received:

    Greetings,

    Welcome To Web Cooking.

    Member Number: 77388412618
    Login ID: user7490
    Temorary Password: pf165

    For security purposes please login and change the temporary Login ID and Password.

    Follow this Link: http://x.x.x.x/

    Welcome,
    Confirmation Dept.
    Web Cooking

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