PandaLabs has discovered that iTunes has become a major target for hackers looking to steal credit-card data from the millions of users. Victims receive an email informing them they have made an expensive purchase on iTunes.
The user, who has never made the purchase, is concerned by the email and tries to solve the problem by clicking on the fake link. After clicking the link, the victim is asked to download a fake PDF reader. Once installation is complete, the user is redirected to an infected Web page containing the Zeus Trojan, which is designed to steal personal data.
This phishing attack was uncovered shortly after a similar phishing attack targeting LinkedIn users, which appears to have originated in Russia. ... This technique has been reported to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which has started to block some of the Web addresses linked to in the fake email. [Date: 12 October
2010; Source: http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/2010/10/12/massive-phishing-attack-zones-in-on-itunes- users/]
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