Sick New Spam: 'We Have Kidnapped Your Child'

SophosLabs™ is reporting that a new variety of spam is starting to make it's way into inboxes everywhere. A new spam email being sent out that claims your child has been kidnapped! The email is evidently UK based, asking for a £25,000 ransom ($50,000 USD) and most insidiously includes an attachment purporting to be a picture of the kidnapped child. Once a user clicks and downloads the attachment, of course, their computer is infected with a trojan horse virus.
The poorly worded email's subject line reads 'We have hijacked your baby.'

Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned of a widespread spam campaign that pretends that the receipient's baby has been kidnapped.

The campaign tries to trick innocent computer users into opening a file claiming to be photographs of the infant, but are really malicious software.

Attached to the email is a file, entitled photo.zip, which contains a malicious Trojan horse that will download further malware from the internet to compromise PCs. Sophos detects the Trojan horse as Troj/Resex-Fam.

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