DON'T BE FOOLED BY CURRENT EVENTS

Last week it was the Olympics, this week it's N.Korea's Rocket launch. From Trendmicro's Blog:

"During the second of week of April, the most talked about news was North Korea’s failed attempt to launch a rocket. As expected, the bad guys are on the prowl for the next social engineering bait and the said news item was found the be the fitting choice.

The file we found was named North Korea satellite launch eclipses that of Iran.doc. The said file, detected as TROJ_ARTIEF.DOC, may arrive as an attachment to an email message. Once executed, this Trojan exploits the vulnerability in RTF Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3333) to drop the backdoor BKDR_POISON.DOC onto the system."

Read the whole story HERE.