The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an email scam alert targeted at holiday travelers. Although this virus first surfaced back in July, US-CERT felt that it was enough of a threat to reissue the alert just a few days ago.
The email appears to come from a legitimate airline and mentions a credit card balance hoping to get unwary recipients to open the attached .zip file. Unfortunately, opening the file will trigger a Trojan downloader that installs malicious code on the user's system. For more information, check the US-CERT's web site on their Current Activity page:
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#airline_ticket_email_scam
Stay safe out there!
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