Beware ‘Your log 05.07.2010′ emails – they carry malware
July 8, 2010 by admin
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Malicious hackers are spamming out emails around the world disguised as a changelog, with the intention of infecting recipient’s Windows computers with the attachment.
A typical email reads as follows, although there can be minor variations in the message body:
Subject: Your log 05.07.2010
Message body:
Dear Customers,
as promised your changelog is attached,
<name>Attached file: Changelog_05_07_2010.zip
The emails, by the way, are always signed off by the first name of the person who is mentioned in the message’s from: field. That field is, of course, forged – it’s not really that person who sent you the email so don’t blame them if you get infected!
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Like most people I hate malware too. The only people who like it are the b***s that create it.
If anyone needs help with malware, I suggest you get malwarebytes. Google it and you’ll find it. It’s got me out of quite a few scrapes.
Dave
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Thanks for the post. Before reading this I didn’t even know what a changelog is. But now (after having looked it up) it makes sense that emailing someone about changes to a project is a particularly malicious way to get someone to open up an attachment.
Lorenzo
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