Fake Angelina Jolie CNN Story Contains Malware

Aug. 3, 2013

The spam comes in the form of an email supposedly from CNN. The subject line is "CNN: Forbes: Angelina Jolie tops list of highest-paid actresses" and the body of the email is a screen capture from the CNN Web page on the story. Click any of the email's links, however, and you'll be prompted to download a file that looks like an Adobe Flash Player update (named "update_flash_player.exe"). But it's really a piece of malicious software.