GLOBAL SECURITY ADVISOR RESEARCH BLOG

Scam lotteries have been a frequent issue in the past and they continue to exist following the media trend.
Total Defense Intelligence Service (Research ISI Team) today caught an interesting email pretending to come from Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The email clearly informs of a fake lottery win, getting the user to contact a Mr. Douglas Price as a fiduciary agent who will handle the award.

Our first indicators of ransomware were trojanised emails masquerading as police warnings against end users. (Ransomware Exploits the Italian Police) and now  it seems to have evolved into leveraging a Fake Windows Update system.
It is the  result of an aggressive campaign originating in Germany where users receive emails similar to the following:

It is a very common habit of internet users to download the videos or unknown software from the reputed video sharing websites. There is nothing un-common in doing so, but there could be a chances of luring the users in the form of presenting advertisements to the types of interesting draw contests of false websites which in turn loss of money if attempted to purchase.

I have come across the similar scenario when I have downloaded the video.