Watch for fake Flash Player upgrades arriving by email.

There are nasty email messages circulating that offer to upgrade the security mode of your inbox. If you click on the link provided in the message, you will be asked to upgrade your Flash Player. This is not a true upgrade, but instead a Trojan Horse program designed to steal financial data.

The email requests that recipients click on a link in the body of the email to update the “security mode” of their emailboxes, according to researchers at Red Condor, an email security tool vendor.

Users who click on the link are taken to a Website that advises them to update to the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player by downloading “flashinstaller.exe.” This executable is actually a banking Trojan that is known to disable firewalls, steal sensitive financial data, and provide hackers with remote access capabilities, Red Condor says.

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One Response to “Fake Flash Player Upgrades”

1. payday advances online says:

   2009-12-12 at 17:13

   Thanks for the info about this trojan program. I think that I got one of these emails the other day. I almost downloaded it, but decided not to. I am glad I didn’t.