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More Skype spam

September 15, 2010

I have been hit by what appears to be yet another round of Skype spam. As it happened before, also this attack seems to be related to fake AV scams.

Here is a screenshot of a contact request I've received today from some notific.alrm.us.13.

Screenshot of the Skype spam message

The full text of the contact request leaves few doubts to the intents of the request:

This is an urgent Security Center Message ! Please click on "Add to Contacts" and follow instructions to update your system ! After adding contact, go to "Conversations" tab, read and follow instructions !

WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION URGENT SYSTEM SCAN NOTIFICATION ! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY !!

http://www.updatedp.com/

For the link to become active, type it in manually into your web browser !

FULL DETAILS OF SCAN RESULT BELOW

WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

ATTENTION ! Security Center has detected malware on your computer !

Affected Software:

Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution / Virus Infection / Unexpected shutdowns

Recommendation: Users running vulnerable version should install a repair utility immediately

Your system IS affected, download the patch from the address below ! Failure to do so may result in severe computer malfunction.

http://www.updatedp.com/

For the link to become active, type it in manually into your web browser!

The advertised domain, www.updatedp.com, currently serves me the default It works! page of Apache. Interestingly, that domain has quite a long history of maliciousness (at least all the way back to 2003!)

The following usernames are also likely to be involved in this scam:

Posted by marco in spam

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