The 2014 FIFA World Cup football (soccer) has kicked off this week, and so have phishing campaigns trying to trick you into scams for free tickets, realtime news and online streaming of the games. There are several scams doing the rounds, the most prominent one being all-expenses paid trips to Brazil. Example image here:
The email subject is: __email___ WON a free ticket to 2014 World Cup, but the email has a malicious zip file attachment that if opened will take over the PC. It's a remote admin trojan called DarkComet.
Apart from free tickets, news clips with goals scored and highlights about the teams are also used to make people open up attachments or click on links to infected websites. One example is an email circulating about Neymar da Silva Junior, a young Brazilian star player. The email contains a malicious word document that exploits a known vulnerability in Microsoft Word.
So as always, THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK!
