receipt Accounts – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware

Last revised or Updated on: 16th February, 2016, 9:53 AMAn email with the subject of receipt pretending to come from Accounts <accounts@aacarpetsandfurniture.co.uk> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment  is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking Trojans like Dridex or Dyreza and ransomware like cryptolocker or Teslacrypt. They are using email addresses and subjects that will scare or entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than they do from consumers. The email looks like: From: Accounts <accounts@aacarpetsandfurniture.co.uk> Date: Tue 16/02/2016 08:22 Subject: receipt Attachment: CCE06102015_00000.docm … Continue reading →