How does Symantec know it's the week of Thanksgiving? Because as the busiest travel day of the year day quickly approaches, the day just before Thanksgiving , there is a surge in fake email ticket confirmations that lead to viruses.
Here is what a fake airline message looks like:
If you inspect the HTML coding for this message carefully, you will notice a malicious link in the anchor tag:
This link redirects to a known malware-hosting site in Russia which previously hosted Trojan.Maljava. Trojan.Maljava is a detection name used by Symantec to identify malicious Java files that exploit one or more vulnerabilities, one of many threats awaiting an unsuspecting user.
So before you click through emails during the holiday rush, here are some best practices to protect yourself from these types of malicious email attacks: