Feeling Locky, punk? Ransomware slingers are attempting to trick British computer users into opening booby-trapped messages disguised as voicemail notifications. Supposed voice message notification from Peach Telecom actually carry the infamous Locky ransomware, security firm Cyren warns. The ransomware campaign uses a new tactic by delivering the …
I used to wonder what kind of idiot gets caught out by this sort of thing. Then I had a call from my sister about one such email (think it was a WhatApp nasty).
"Why did you click on the link, you don't use that?!"
"But it was from a friend!"
"Yes, but you DON'T USE THAT PROGRAM!!!"
Now I know what kind of idiot...
I've got several of these. And vast numbers from Office@variousmailhosts. (Memo to would-be ransomware slingers: sending mail allegedly from Office@Company_From_Which_I_Have_A_Barely_Used_Email_Address.com or some such tends to make most people think that the mail isn't genuine. This is especially so when the text in the mail says that the attachment is a PDF when I can clearly see that it's a DOCM. And, further, if you send six posts in half an hour all with identical wording except that there's a different name in the body of the document, well... Not to mention that no-one would be sending me invoices from that place, anyway.) My delete key has been overworked lately. I really must get around to putting in that filter to kill all DOCMs. Though some of those posts have lately begun attaching ZIPs. Probably from the same people, the text is identical, down to still saying that the attachments are PDFs. Different (usually female) name in the text, though. Apparently people trust, or are supposed to trust, girls.
Me too, been seeing a lot of these in the past few months. Also spam that claims to be attaching faxes.
It seemed spam was on the decline earlier this year, I didn't see many. Now I see about a half dozen of the above type of spam to one email address on a daily basis, and one or two dozen Viagra/Cialis type spam to another each day. Enough that I'm thinking I should insert a junk mail filter rule for those words, but I haven't ever filtered my spam because it is kind of interesting seeing the various strategies evolve. Been forever since I've seen a 419 scam email, for instance, but I used to see several a week.
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