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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Pfizer Fails to Secure Computers, Sends Viagra Spam

In an ironic twist, malware-infected computers inside Pfizer's networks are spamming inboxes everywhere with unauthorized ads for it's own product. Pfizer's computers appear to have been infected with malware that has transformed them into zombie computers sending spam at the behest of a hacker. Rick Wesson, CEO of Support Intelligence says Pfizer computers have been spamming inboxes for the last six months and that he's kept 600 spam messages sent from company computers. He says 138 different Pfizer IP addresses have been blacklisted by various groups.

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