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Spam’s iPhone

With the imminent arrival of 3G iPhone to most countries, not just the publicity campaign has reached the public, but also spam.

The first version of the iPhone, multimedia mobile device, was commercialized in a few countries. Its new 3G version will be sold throughout the world, as seen in Apple’s website.

In Spain, Movistar will be the company who distribute and provide services for the device from July 11, while the Latin American market reach of the hands of the firm course.

Part of a spam campaign, takes advantage of this press release and the attractiveness of this product to propagate a threat disguised video.

Through tricks of social engineering the user is tricked to download a malware when clicked, both for more information as to see the presentation.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus detects this threat as Win32/TrojanDropper.Small.NHR

The researchers discovered that this campaign against spam, warn that the main objective is Latin America. This is because it is the first time that this device will be available for this market with a company that is responsible for providing the signal for service in South americas. In addition, all Spanish speakers can fall into the deception because the text is in Spanish.

The company only provides product information on its website. It is important not to follow links in unsolicited emails, as well as maintain updated antivirus.

Posted on July 4, 2008

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