Cybercriminals impersonate Booking.com, serve malware using bogus ‘Hotel Reservation Confirmation’ themed emails

Cybercriminals impersonate Booking.com, serve malware using bogus ‘Hotel Reservation Confirmation’ themed emails

by | Jul 23, 2012 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab

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Globetrotters, beware of these malicious emails!

Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating Booking.com, in an attempt to trick end and corporate users into downloading and executing the malicious archive attached to the emails.

More details:

Screenshot of a sample spamvertised email:

The malicious Hotel-Reservation-Confirmation_from_Booking.exe (MD5: 7b60d5b4af4b1612cd2be56cfc4c1b92 ) executable is detected by 30 out of 42 antivirus scanners as Backdoor.Win32.Androm.cp; Mal/Katusha-F

Webroot SecureAnywhere users are proactively protected rom this threat.

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2 Comments

  1. Hudson Smith
    Hudson Smith on April 15, 2014 at 1:10 am

    I am
    going through this post and thinking of it’s theme and trying to understand
    what is this post about. At last I can have found something from this post
    which feels pretty good.

  2. Hudson Smith
    Hudson Smith on April 30, 2014 at 5:48 am

    This just confirms
    the adage that you should not open attachments unless you can verify the
    sender. And that you trust the sender.
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