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Our researcher Adam Thomas found this little gem today. It’s distributed with other malware, cracks and drive-by downloads. It purports to be a security warning from your Windows operating system.

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Notice the “Visa, MasterCard, etc” – it doesn’t even bother to list all the cards it accepts.

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The really cool thing about it is that it takes FAKE credit card numbers as well as real ones!

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Thanks to Sunbelt Software researcher Francesco Benedini for help with the analysis.

Tom Kelchner