‘Win an iPhone’ - the latest scam to hit unsuspecting email recipients

The Apple iPod has just hit the stores in the U.S but already spammers are exploiting the craze that surrounds them. Thousands of people have received emails, that try to dupe them into thinking they’ve won an iPhone, from the scammers.

Secure Computing, the web-filtering specialist is warning users to not fall for the socially engineered emails. Once the contained link in the email is clicked on, the scammers will try to connect to a Web site and install malicious software which is designed to take control of the victim’s computer.

Paul Henry is the vice president of technology evangelism for Secure Computing believes that this is just the start of the iPhone-related phishing scam. He says,
“Because of the popularity of the iPhone brand, this is the first in what’s bound to be a series of scams involving the iPhone,”

The criminals behind the scam aren’t your run of the mill scammers, they are using sophisticated techniques to thwart security firms. The web site in question uses more than ten pieces of malicious code, each targeting a potential browsers vulnerability. Henry continued,

“This threat is particularly insidious in that scripts within the HTML code returned to the user contain exploit code for multiple vulnerabilities to improve the malicious hacker’s chances of gaining the necessary access to install the rootkit/spambot malware,” Henry said.

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