Following on from the American Airlines and Delta Airlines spoofed emails  we are now seeing US Airways as the subject.  Some nice kind person hasn’t paid for a ticket for you or the Airline hasn’t made a mistake and sent a ticket to the wrong email address. Once again it is another one from the current zbot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, ransomware  and loads of  other malware  on your computer. Most of these are using email addresses and subjects that are appropriate for the time of year. Currently many of the emails are either about undelivered packages or … Continue reading →

Another one from the current zbot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, ransomware  and loads of  other malware  on your computer. Most of these are using email addresses and subjects that are appropriate for the time of year. Currently many of the emails are either about undelivered packages or invoices or payment advice for online shopping. All subjects that we would expect to receive in emails at this time of year. The other major common subject is Tax returns, where especially in UK, you need to submit your Tax Return online before 31st December each year. Almost all of these … Continue reading →

Another one from the current zbot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, ransomware  and loads of  other malware  on your computer. Most of these are using email addresses and subjects that are appropriate for the time of year. Currently many of the emails are either about undelivered packages or invoices or payment advice for online shopping. All subjects that we would expect to receive in emails at this time of year. The other major common subject is Tax returns, where especially in UK, you need to submit your Tax Return online before 31st December each year. Almost all of these … Continue reading →

Updated 18 Feb 2014: After a long break the Barclays transaction notification spam run has restarted today. There is a slight change to the previous version, where they now use a fake PDF rather than an XLS file see also NatWest Personal Banking transaction notification –  fake PDF malware Barclays transaction notification is another one from the current zbot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, ransomware  and loads of  other malware  on your computer. Most of these are using email addresses and subjects that are appropriate for the time of year. Almost all of these have a password stealing component, … Continue reading →

Companies house complaint is another one from the current zbot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, ransomware  and loads of  other malware  on your computer. Updated 17 February 2014: we have been seeing loads of these emails today but no attachments or links to download anything. We can only assume that the bot has gone wrong and they will resume normal service later when they resend all the emails and attach the malware this time. 19 February 2014:  the updated version we predicted has surfaced but it doesn’t have any attachments. Instead the links go to infected, hacked, compromised sites … Continue reading →