Fake flash player alerts from legitimate websites

Regardless of how up to date our computers are, How good our Antivirus protection is, we all are at risk from malicious adverts on webpages. Now I accept adverts are part of the web today. I personally don’t use or recommend ad blockers because many websites ( including this one) Continue reading → Continue reading Fake flash player alerts from legitimate websites

fake DHL Tracking Number for shipment malspam delivers ransomware

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of DHL Tracking Number for shipment 97 93745 186 ( random numbers)   pretending to come from DHL Corporation  with a link in email body to download a  file that will deliver what looks like ransomware I had a Continue reading → Continue reading fake DHL Tracking Number for shipment malspam delivers ransomware

Spoofed Companies House FW: Case C238260756 delivers unknown malware

An email with the subject of FW: Case C238260756  message pretending to come from Companies House  but actually coming from a look alike domain WebFiling@companieshousewebfilling.co.uk with a malicious  attachment  is today’s latest spoof of a well known company, bank or public authority delivering  some sort of malware This is Trickbot banking Trojan. Continue reading → Continue reading Spoofed Companies House FW: Case C238260756 delivers unknown malware

fake parcel delivery services malspam with word doc attachment delivers ursnif banking Trojan

A slightly different one today and I am not sure how many recipients will be infected by this. On my server, some are being delivered with the word doc attachment, but about half are just getting the email body with  an HTML attachment which has the same details as the email body and Continue reading → Continue reading fake parcel delivery services malspam with word doc attachment delivers ursnif banking Trojan

Japanese language malspam Parking lot rental cancellation delivers more ursnif banking Trojan

I must be missing something in the auto translation of this Japanese Language malspam which just doesn’t make a lot of sense when translated. I think it pretends to be a cancellation for renting a parking lot in Japan somewhere that will take place on 1 June which delivers Ursnif Continue reading → Continue reading Japanese language malspam Parking lot rental cancellation delivers more ursnif banking Trojan

fake speeding tickets deliver multiple malwares

Back to Parking /and Speeding fines today with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of Report-ID: submit@thespykiller.co.uk 21/04/2017 coming or pretending to come from  Parking Service ( random email addresses ) with a zip attachment   which delivers Kovter and HydraCrypt malwares. These parking / speeding fines Continue reading → Continue reading fake speeding tickets deliver multiple malwares

Ursnif banking Trojan delivered by fake invoices using word docs with embedded ole objects

Continuing with today’s Ursnif /Gozi /ISFB banking Trojans. This one is using a different delivery method to try to throw us off track. Whereas today’s earlier ones spoofing DHL [1] [2] used standard .js files inside zips, this has a word docx attachment that contains an embedded ole object that Continue reading → Continue reading Ursnif banking Trojan delivered by fake invoices using word docs with embedded ole objects

More fake DHL Fwd: DHL Redelivery Confirmation malspam delivering ursnif banking trojan

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of Fwd: DHL Redelivery Confirmation #574068024996 ( random numbers) pretending to come from random companies, names and email addresses with a semi-random named zip attachment  which delivers  Ursnif banking Trojan. This is an updated version to this Continue reading → Continue reading More fake DHL Fwd: DHL Redelivery Confirmation malspam delivering ursnif banking trojan

fake DHL Statements x Requests Required delivers malware

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of 6109175302 Statements x Requests Required ( random numbers)  pretending to come frombgyhub@dhl.com with a zip attachment containing 2 differently named .js files which delivers some sort of malware. I am not certain yet what it is but Continue reading → Continue reading fake DHL Statements x Requests Required delivers malware

fake HSBC Bank – 24086 Loan Program Notification malspam delivers hancitor

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of HSBC Bank – 24086 Loan Program Notification coming  from noreply9@creditsupport.gdn which delivers what looks like hancitor malware. It is quite unusual for malware authors to use 7zip (7z) compressed ( zip ) files, although most current extraction Continue reading → Continue reading fake HSBC Bank – 24086 Loan Program Notification malspam delivers hancitor