There mustn’t be much going on in the world today as the Nuwar spammers have moved from jumping on real news of natural disasters and current affairs to creating their own fictional events! This high volume spam campaign is using some wacky subjects to lure people into clicking on the links:

Subject: Britney found hanged in locker room
Subject: White House hit by lightning, catches fire
Subject: Oprah found sleeping the streets
Subject: Eiffel Tower damaged by massive earthquake
Subject: Donald Trump missing, feared kidnapped
Subject: Lastest! Obama quits presidential race

This clever social engineering technique plays on peoples inquisitiveness in news of natural disasters and celebrities. The emails also follow the simple format of some text and a link that looks fairly harmless to the uneducated user.

All the links go to a fake pornotube page hosted on legitimate sites that have been hacked. If you click on the video (that’s actually just an image) it tries to download a .exe file. This is detected as BackDoor-DNM and the spam is also currently detected with our Anti-Spam products.

So it goes without saying.. NEVER click on links in an email unless you are sure of its origin, keep your Anti-Virus software up-to-date and if you have a website make sure its properly secured so you’re not hosting stuff like this.