Sophos has posted a blog entry yesterday about trends on spam and malware. The author notes that malware authors still use the same old social engineering tricks to fool users into infecting themselves.

The blog includes an outline of two malware. The first is Mal/EncPk-DA. It is about an attacker who sends spam messages that contains a link in every message. The link points to a site that may be legitimate but various malicious files have been loaded onto it.

The second malware that was discussed is Mal/TibsPk-D. It is about an attacker’s attempt to lure recipients to click on a link which is supposed to point to a web page that contains nude photos of the actress, Angelina Jolie.

Source: Sophos