New Targeted Email Attack Aimed At Small Businesses

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New Targeted Email Attack Aimed At Small Businesses

06-17-2007, 09:54 AM, (This post was last modified: 06-17-2007, 09:57 AM by Kristijntje.)

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New Targeted Email Attack Aimed At Small Businesses

Quote:We've received another well-crafted e-mail attack here at PC World along the lines of the recent faked Better Business Bureau and IRS messages. This one came as a faked invoice from accounting@beckman.com at a supposed Beckman Instruments, Inc., with a Word .doc attachment named Proforma_Invoice.doc...

Only a few antivirus engines flag the attachment as dangerous, according to Virustotal.com.

Similar to previous attacks, this e-mail used the correct recipient name and business name within the subject...

full article: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004662.html

Al draagt een aap een gouden ring, het is en blijft een lelijk ding

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