{"id":12550,"date":"2022-03-25T05:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T05:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2022-03-25T05:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T05:03:31","slug":"congratulations-on-your-victory-in-the-international-lottery-google-int-fake-pdf-malware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/congratulations-victory-international-lottery-google-int-fake-pdf-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations On Your Victory In The International Lottery GOOGLE INT \u2013 Fake PDF Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"
An email saying Congratulations on your victory in the international lottery GOOGLE INT pretending to come from GOOGLE <no-replay@ilottery.com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, 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.<\/p>\n
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
Almost all of these also have a password stealing component, with the aim of stealing your bank, PayPal or other financial details along with 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
All the alleged senders, companies, names of employees and phone numbers mentioned in the emails are all innocent and are just picked at random. Some of these companies will exist and some won\u2019t. Don\u2019t try to respond by phone or email, all you will do is end up with an innocent person or company who have had their details spoofed and picked at random from a long list that the bad guys have previously found.<\/p>\n
The bad guys choose companies, Government departments and organisations with subjects that are designed to entice you or alarm you into blindly opening the attachment or clicking the link in the email to see what is happening.<\/p>\n
Please read our How to protect yourselves page<\/a> for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of socially engineered malware.<\/p>\n The email looks like:<\/p>\n Congratulations on your victory in the international lottery GOOGLE INT *********************************************** *********************************************** 12 February 2021: form.zip: Extracts to: form.exe Current Virus total detections: 8\/55<\/p>\n This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have \u201cshow known file extensions enabled<\/a>\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
\nand win in the amount of 10,000 euro.
\nFor winning fill out the form and send it to us investing in response.<\/p>\n
\nMr. Kan Hans
\nMirrow
\nTrust Agency
\nTEL:+386225264263
\nEmail:kan.hans@gmail.com
\nNew York
\n66, 4545,2<\/p>\n
\nIf you cann\u2019t open the file, download and install Adobe Acrobat.
\nhttp:\/\/get.adobe.com\/ru\/reader\/otherversions\/<\/p>\n