{"id":634,"date":"2022-03-01T00:36:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftsgary.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2023-04-06T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:21:06","slug":"virgin-media-automated-billing-reminder-malware-exploit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/virgin-media-automated-billing-reminder-malware-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder Malware Exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on from New voicemail recived malware exploit and Please fill in your Employer Reference Number, policy \u2013 MQBI352715XB \u2013 malware we now have Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder pretending to come from Virgin Media Online Services [billing@virginmedia.com] is another one from the current bot runs which try to drop cryptolocker, 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 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

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

Once again we are unable to get any malware payload from it because the sites insist on some vulnerable softweare which we don\u2019t have installed<\/p>\n

There is an alternative version spreading with a subject of British Gas bill payment. pretending to come from British Gas [services@britishgas.co.uk] but with exactly the same virgin media email<\/p>\n

Email looks like<\/p>\n

Virgin Media Automated Billing Reminder<\/p>\n

\"\"Date 17th June 2021<\/strong>
\nThis e-mail has been sent you by Virgin Media to inform you that we were
\nunable to process your most recent payment of bill. This might be due to
\none of the following reasons:<\/p>\n