{"id":16341,"date":"2022-07-02T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?page_id=16341"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:52:19","slug":"your-receipt-amy-morley-howard-cundey-word-doc-or-excel-xls-spreadsheet-malware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/your-receipt-amy-morley-howard-cundey-word-doc-or-excel-xls-spreadsheet-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Receipt Amy Morley Howard Cundey \u2013 Word Doc Or Excel xls Spreadsheet Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"
your receipt pretending to come from\u00a0Amy Morley <amymorley@howardcundey.com>\u00a0with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment\u00a0 is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and\u00a0password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various\u00a0\u00a0Zbots,\u00a0cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer.<\/p>\n
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
Almost all of these\u00a0also have a password stealing component, with the aim of stealing your\u00a0bank, PayPal or other financial details along with your\u00a0email 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\u00a0and 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 \u00a0or company\u00a0\u00a0who have had their\u00a0details 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 \u00a0with 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
Howard Cundey\u00a0 Estate Agents\u00a0have not been hacked or had their email or other servers compromised. They are not sending the emails to you. They are just innocent victims in exactly the same way as every recipient of these emails.<\/p>\n
This email has what appears to be a genuine word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attached which is malformed and contains a macro script virus. Modern versions of Microsoft office, that is Office 2010 and 2013 and Office 365 have Macros disabled by default, UNLESS you or your company have enabled them.<\/p>\n
If\u00a0protected view<\/a>\u00a0mode is turned off and macros are enabled then\u00a0opening this malicious word document will infect you, and simply previewing it in\u00a0 windows explorer or your email client might well be enough to infect you. Definitely DO NOT follow\u00a0the advice they give to enable\u00a0macros to see the content. Almost all of these malicious word documents appear to be blank when opened in\u00a0protected view<\/a>\u00a0mode, which should be the default in Office 2010, 2013 and 365.<\/p>\n Please read our\u00a0How to protect yourselves page<\/a>\u00a0for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of socially engineered malware. Also please read our\u00a0post about word macro malware<\/a>\u00a0and how to avoid being infected by them<\/p>\n The email looks like:<\/p>\n Your receipt<\/p>\n Kind regards<\/p>\n Amy<\/p>\n