Unexpected Online Greeting Cards May Carry Trojan Horses

The SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center (ISC) has issued a warning about Internet greeting cards or postcards which bear links leading to Trojan Horse programs. Like the original Trojan Horse, these salutations carry a cargo designed to infiltrate, in this case, your computer.

Wrote the ISC’s Greg Shipley:

We’re receiving more reports of email messages coming in posing as “postcard pickup” notifications that wind up delivering a trojan payload. One example we were forwarded is an email message claiming “You have just received a virtual postcard from a family member!” which apparently sends you to a “pickup” site that gives you an mIRC-based trojan. While it’s sad that we have to say this, the amount of cruft that’s being delivered via email continues to encourage us to take a “default deny” posture; without knowing the true source of an email, one has to be cautious on accepting just about everything these days.

A particularly insidious aspect of this new Trojan Horse attack is…

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