Monday, December 1, 2008

Emails containing a link for an animated holiday card are an early present from malware attackers.

The attack comes from a seemingly innocent picture of an animated Christmas scene from postcards.org that will link people to the malicious file postcard.exe hosted on various servers, ComputerWeekly.com reports.

If a user clicks on the link, it gives the hacker control of the infected computer through a back door and access to various resources. During the installation process of the executable file, an image called xmas.jpeg is displayed in an effort to distract users, according to Websense Labs.

Spotted here