Cyberspace Hit by 'Kim Jong-Il' Spam
Tuesday, 03 January 2012, 18:25 IST
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NEW DELHI: Indian computer security analysts have detected and alerted internet users against 'malicious spam mails' in the name of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il leading to hacking and crashing of vulnerable e-mail addresses. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), country's national agency to respond to computer security incidents, has found the malware virus streaming into the Indian cyberspace. "It has been observed that a spam campaign in the pretext of death of North Korean leader " Kim Jong II" is making rounds. The spam mails carry a fake name 'brief_introduction_of_kim_jong_Ill_pdf.pdf'. "The said pdf file is exploiting vulnerabilities in Adobe reader and Acrobat, that once successfully exploited leads to remote code execution in the victim system," the CERT-In said in its latest advisory to users. The CERT-In has asked all government and other Internet Protocol addresses to not click on the link as it may lead to loss of valuable data.
Source: PTI
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