A more accurate summary would be "Wikileaks releases many AKP emails, including lots of received spam. Some of the spam has ZIP files containing malware." So

A more accurate summary would be "Wikileaks releases many AKP emails, including lots of received spam. Some of the spam has ZIP files containing malware." So good question, and it looks like the answer is this isn't a novel attack, just normal malware-spam and an imprecise summary.