I thought t’was damn real. I received it a few hours ago thru my private email. Since to me the layout was legitimate coupled with the brand/logo of CNN I clicked it. Then asked me download a damn latest flash version but when I open and run the file things didn’t work the way as expected. A few hours I scanned Slasdot and bam! on top of their story was this damn spam!

“More than a thousand hacked Web sites are serving up fake Flash Player software to users duped into clicking on links in mail that’s part of a massive spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications, security researchers said today. The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web site, include links to what are supposedly the day’s Top 10 news stories and Top 10 news video clips from the cable network. Clicking on any of those links, however, brings up a dialog that says an incorrect version of Flash Player has been detected and that tells users they needed to update to a fake newer edition, which delivers a Trojan horse — identified by multiple names, including Cbeplay.a — that “phones home” to a malicious server to grab and install additional malware.”

I hope I was not badly infected by it. For now haven’t experienced strange stuffs with my PC yet.

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