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Paparazzi catch Berlusconi! (claim of Russian Italian malware emails)

If you believe the email below, the recently-resigned Italian PM has paid a large amount of money to prevent the publication of “images”.

Translation:  

Berlusconi has proposed 2 million to hide the images.

Look at this:

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The zipped file is of course malware and we hope recipients didn’t open it or share with their friends as suggested. The emails are delivered with differing text to make them harder to block. One of these variants caught the eye of our alert analysts:

The translation:

Paparazzi finally vpoymali Berlusconi.

Reference:

http://www.exclusiv———/DC009.zip

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Notice that the ever-reliable Google Translate got stuck on the 3rd word. That’s because it’s not Italian but Russian – “Поймали“ means “caught” as in “Paparazzi finally caught Berlusconi”. In other words, those behind the malware outbreak wrote the text in Russian and translated it to Italian – but obviously didn’t review all of the results. Pretty sloppy work guys.

Email text (Italian)

Berlusconi ha proposto 2 milioni di euro per nascondere quelle immagini.

Guarda qui:

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Or…

Paparazzi infine vpoymali Berlusconi.

di riferimento:

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