This society of cyber-terrorists has developed another method to make sure that a great number of people would fall into their trap. Emails with the “We have hijacked your baby” subject are being sent in order to institute terror among the recipients and make them download a piece of malicious software. The body of the message is written in poor English and goes like this: “Hey We have hijacked your baby but you must pay once to us $50 000. The details we will send later…” The email ends with an unclear message – “We was attached photo of your fume” – that comes together with a .zip file.
Then, you did not know that the photo.zip is in fact a trojan, identified by the security labs at Sophos as being Troj/Resex-Fam, a type of malware that is not dangerous by itself, but downloads into the infected machine other types of malicious software.
The only part of the message that might cause trouble is the attachment, so people are advised not to panic if they read the body of the email without downloading the “picture.” Receiving or reading these widespread emails themselves does not mean you are infected. However, if you open the attachment you’re infecting your Windows computer, and giving hackers an open door to take control and steal information. Once a PC is commandeered, criminals can spy, steal or launch attacks against other parts of the net. So, be careful guys!
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Thanks for the heads-up.