Security Alert: Fake MSNBC Breaking News Messages and HTTP Fake Codec WebPage Attacks 01
TOKYO (MacHouse) - More than 3 hours ago, an organized cyber criminal group starting to circulate spam messages with sender’s name of MSNBC Breaking News. We have received at least 7 similar messages in this kind. The subject is slightly different in each spam message. For example, one of them is titled
msnbc.com - BREAKING NEWS: Obama set to win presidency (See Screenshot 01.)
Other spam messages are titled
msnbc.com - BREAKING NEWS: Mary-Kate Olsen guilty for Heath Ledger’s death
(See Screenshot 02.)
msnbc.com - BREAKING NEWS: Japanese Prime Minister denies World War 2 ever took place
(See Screenshot 03.)
 Screenshot 01 - Source: MacHouse |
 Screenshot 02 - Source: MacHouse |
 Screenshot 03 - Source: MacHouse |
All these spam messages are identical to the extent that the third line of the body contains the following line
Find out more at http://breakingnews.msnbc.com
The underlying URL is different in each message. The websites at the destinations are apparently hacked to host a malicious code, which is believed to attack only Windows OS.
 Screenshot 04 - Source: MacHouse |
 Screenshot 05 - Source: MacHouse |
 Screenshot 06 - Source: MacHouse |
According to security software company Symantec, the severity of this vulnerability attack is high, stating ‘This attack could pose a serious security threat.’ They call it HTTP Fake Codec WebPage
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Hopefully, we will have more detailed information on these vulnerability attacks in several hours.
References:
Symantec: HTTP Fake Codec WebPage
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