According to TrendMicro's blog, there is an email spam which is playing on the "inquiring minds want to know" crowd by asking: "Who killed Michael Jackson?"
The answer of course is located on a malicious website.
From TrendMicro:
"Michael Jackson has been dead for a week already, but there are still a lot of speculations regarding his death. The spam runs are plenty as well — a Michael Jackson-related spam was seen bearing the subject "Who killed Michael Jackson?", coming from a sender named x-files.
The spam message suggests that the icon was killed, and that information on who murdered him can be seen on the given URL.
Clicking the said link leads to a website, where the user is asked to execute a file, which supposedly contains secret information, in order to find out who killed Michael Jackson. (and inquiring minds should know better than to do that)
The Trojan TROJ_ZBOT.AXY connects to a certain URL where it downloads a configuration file containing a list of banking-related websites. Once the user attempts to visit any of the listed sites, a spoofed site is displayed instead of the real one, thus any critical information entered on the spoofed site will be sent to a remote user.
This threat however, doesn’t stand a chance against the Smart Protection Network as of its all components — spam, URL and file — are already either blocked or detected.
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