British Gas invalid certificate warnings.

Like thousands or even millions of other British Gas users, I received my usual monthly email asking me to submit my meter reading . Nothing unusual in that, until I followed the link ( as usual ) and got an invalid certificate warning.  I do this every month and have Continue reading → Continue reading British Gas invalid certificate warnings.

British Gas VAT Invoice – Quote Ref: ES0142570 – word doc malware

Last revised or Updated on: 24th February, 2016, 11:05 AMAn email appearing to be a British Gas vat invoice with the subject of  VAT Invoice – Quote Ref: ES0142570 pretending to come from CardiffC&MFinance <CardiffC&MFinance@centrica.com>  with a malicious word doc  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 Locky, 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: … Continue reading → Continue reading British Gas VAT Invoice – Quote Ref: ES0142570 – word doc malware