Airlines targeted in new malware threat

A string of new email spam this morning, all claiming to be payment receipts from US airlines – provided as a malware-laden zip file.

The following airlines were used in the headers in the ones we got this morning:

- Virgin America
- Delta Air Lines
- AirTran Airways
- Continental Airlines
- Northwest Airlines
- JetBlue Airways

Likely more airline names are being targeted – these are just the ones SW has received to date.

It’s expected that these should be easily differentiated from normal airlines because bona-fide purchases will see a copy of the ticket in the email body, not as a zip attachment.

As with all of these, do not open unsolicited zip files – simply bin and delete without reading.