{"id":11451,"date":"2022-04-12T05:36:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?p=11451"},"modified":"2023-04-03T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:34:22","slug":"help-advice-virgin-media-business-virgin-media-automated-billing-reminder-fake-pdf-malware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/help-advice-virgin-media-business-virgin-media-automated-billing-reminder-fake-pdf-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Help &#038; Advice \u2013 Virgin Media Business Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder Fake PDF Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help &amp; Advice \u2013 Virgin Media Business Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder pretending to come from Virginmedia Business &lt;services@virginmediabusiness.co.uk&gt;is another one from the current zbot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than they do from consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of these have a password stealing component, with the aim of stealing your email or FTP ( web space) log in credentials. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your facebook and other social network log in details.<\/p>\n<p>Please read our\u00a0<a title=\"How to protect yourselves page\" href=\"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/how-to-protect-yourself-and-tighten-security\/\">How to protect yourselves page\u00a0<\/a>for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of socially engineered malware.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--bs-body-bg); font-size: 1rem; font-weight: var(--bs-body-font-weight); letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);\">Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140803063241im_\/http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:IjOSG-1y3IKA2M:http:\/\/www.britneyspears.com\/2008\/12\/12\/Virgin%20Media%20Web.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Date 25th July 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This e-mail has been sent you by Virgin Media to inform you that we were<\/p>\n<p>unable to process your most recent payment of bill. This might be due to<\/p>\n<p>one of the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A recent change in your personal information such as Name or address.<\/li>\n<li>Your Credit or Debit card has expired.<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient funds in your account.<\/li>\n<li>Cancellation of Direct Debit agreement.<\/li>\n<li>Your Card issuer did not authorize this transaction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To avoid Service interruption you will need to update your billing profile, failure to update your profile may lead in service cancellation and termination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please fulfill attached form and send it back to our email adress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please ensure all address and contact details are up to date, once submitted your account details will automatically be updated within 24 Hours.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140803063241im_\/http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:AqResqcICc_z0M:http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/18\/Louis-xiv-signature.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Virgin Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Customer Services Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellis Willis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>25 July 2021: form_19927-267.zip (85 kb): Extracts to billing_form91_4352-2105.pdf.scr Current Virus total detections: 5\/53 MALWR Auto Analysis:<\/p>\n<p>This Help &amp; Advice \u2013 Virgin Media Business Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have \u201cshow known file extensions enabled\u201c, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected.<\/p>\n<p>All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email. Whether it is a message saying \u201clook at this picture of me I took last night\u201d and it appears to come from a friend or is more targeted at somebody who regularly is likely to receive PDF attachments or Word .doc attachments or any other common file that you use every day.<\/p>\n<p>Be very careful when unzipping them and make sure you have \u201cshow known file extensions enabled\u201c, And then look carefully at the unzipped file. If it says .EXE then it is a problem and should not be run or opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help &amp; Advice \u2013 Virgin Media Business Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder pretending to come from Virginmedia Business &lt;services@virginmediabusiness.co.uk&gt;is another one from the current zbot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13410,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Fake.jpg",1000,666,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Darrel Heers","author_link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/author\/darrel-heers\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28511,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11451\/revisions\/28511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}