Zeus distributors have responded to journalists exposing a recent Zeus spear phishing campaign by hijacking their news articles and using them to target more people. The fresh Zeus spam features alerts about recent attempts to infect government and military systems with the trojan.
Last week, former Washington Post journalist and security reporter Brian Krebs
broke the news that .mil and .gov e-mail addresses were targeted in a spear phishing campaign to infect government computers with the Zeus trojan.