US gummint hoax email says North Korea nukes Okinawa

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US gummint hoax email says North Korea nukes Okinawa

Postby grawp » Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:33 pm

From this morning's US State Department Diplomatic Security/OSAC Situation Update:

Looks like the pixies are out early this weekend.

A day late, but...
Enjoy!

grawp

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HOAX EMAIL REGARDING NORTH KOREA/JAPAN
March 05, 2010
On March 5, an email purporting to be from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence began circulating through various distribution lists. The email claims that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) fired a nuclear-armed missile onto Okinawa, Japan.

This email is a hoax and should be disregarded. Furthermore, the email provides a number of links for the reader to click. Following unknown links can lead to viruses or other dangerous malware. OSAC advises constituents to follow prudent information security protocols implemented by their organization, e.g., reporting the email to your Chief Information Security Officer, deleting the email, etc.

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Update:
grawp here.
This is the update on said hoax email from Mr. Kyle Haugsness, one of the duty officers over at SANSdotcom's Internet Storm Center:
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False scare email proclaiming North Korea nuclear launch against Japan
Share | Published: 2010-03-05,
Last Updated: 2010-03-05 21:08:31 UTC
by Kyle Haugsness (Version: 1)
3 comment(s)
Reader Jim informed us about a scare email tactic that is trying to entice users to open a malicious zip file. The email looks very well done and is supposedly written by the US Department of National Intelligence. The email basically warns that North Korea has launched a missile at Japan (Okinawa) and that severe destruction has been reported. At the end of a massive list of US agencies, there is a link to a report.zip file with an executable that doesn't seem to have much virus coverage at the moment. Only Symantec is identifying it as Suspicious.Insight. Here is another forum discussing this activity today: http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.ph ... opic=42360.
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