Early this morning, a radio station rang me up wanting to know about the latest threat to internet users – a spammed-out malware attack that was hitting inboxes hard, infecting computers without the user having to open an attachment.
The hot security story, they said, had been brought to their attention by a report in the Daily Mail:
The Daily Mail quoted German security outfit Eleven, who had issued a press release a few days ago entitled “Warning: Driveby Spam Infects PCs When E-Mail Is Opened”.
According to Eleven’s press release:
“This driveby spam automatically downloads malware when the e-mail is opened in the…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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