Symantec warns of new spam

Symantec has issued warnings to users of a spam that urges users of social networks to click on an attachment because their account has been reset and would need to click the attachment to obtain new login credentials. This attachment is a malware called Trojan.Bredolab.

Trojan.Bredolab was discovered in May 2009, and is by itself a downloader that downloads threats listed below randomly from various URLs which changes frequently. The communication between the attacker's server and the infected clients is encrypted using HTTP protocol.

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