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Boston Marathon Spam

April 17th, 2013 Comments off

It didn’t take long time for spammers to start abusing the Boston Marathon bombing sending  emails with links to various Youtube videos of the explosions at the Boston Marathon, an automatic download of a malicious binary named “boston.avi_______.exe”, embedded malicious java code and other iframed pages with malicious content.

spam
Sample email

BostonBombingMalware
Sample landing page with videos and Java