Email Security Firm Warns of Fake Outlook Alerts
Email Security Firm Warns of Fake Outlook Alerts
Posted 01/11/2010 at 9:15am
| by Paul Lilly
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Outlook users beware, According to Red Condor, an email filtering company, bogus Outlook alerts are making the rounds in an attempt to spread banking Trojans, which are used by hackers to access online accounts.
Red Condor said potential victims receive a personalized email message that appears to come from a tech support rep. Adding to the scam's effectiveness, the emails appear to come from the same domain as the target.
The security firm claims to have blocked over a million of these types of messages, which would indicate a botnet is at work and that the hackers are playing a numbers game.
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Hg Dragon
January 11, 2010 at 10:12am
I started seeing this back in September/October last year. Thought it was kind of funny personally. Luckily, most of our users are pretty well "trained" and the couple of users who got this forwarded it on to us so we could let everyone else know it was a fake.
Junk like this sucks for IT and support people, but I still find it interesting in how it works, what it does, etc. One of my personal favorites is one of the variants of the AntivirusXP/2003/Pro scareware that fakes a Windows BSOD. I bought it at first myself the first time I saw it, but realized right after that I shouldn't be seeing it at all since I was connected to the infected machine vis VNC. Hell, it even bounced the screen resolution down and faked the WinXP logo loading screento make it more "authentic."
nekollx
January 11, 2010 at 10:58am
that's nothing, my brother infected my laptop with a fake av that basicly said everything was infected and blocked it.
AVira anti virus, ie, fire fox, ccleaner, i had to do a clean and sweep from my admin account his user account was toast
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