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A piece of malware masquerading as an official security update for Red Hat Linux has been reported in the wild for the first time.
Linux maker Red Hat is warning users about an email that pretends to be an official security advisory but is actually a phishing-type scam that contains links to malicious code.
The fake email appears to have been sent from "[email protected]" and was first spotted on Friday evening with a subject line: "RedHat: Buffer Overflow in 'ls' and 'mkdir'".
The email contains instructions on how to load and install a 'patch', which Red Hat warns is likely to contain malicious code.
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Linux maker Red Hat is warning users about an email that pretends to be an official security advisory but is actually a phishing-type scam that contains links to malicious code.
The fake email appears to have been sent from "[email protected]" and was first spotted on Friday evening with a subject line: "RedHat: Buffer Overflow in 'ls' and 'mkdir'".
The email contains instructions on how to load and install a 'patch', which Red Hat warns is likely to contain malicious code.
The Fedora - Red Hat False Vulnerability Scam - Help Net Security
It looks like the "evil minds" have found a new way to use spam for their devious plans. This time spam is combined with a scam that will try to use
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