A new social engineering scam has been launched a few days ago. The attack tries to scare you into opening the infected attachment by threatening to sue you for spamming.
What the email claims is that your mail server has been sending spam to the outside world. The email is spoofed to appear as if they come from known and reputable companies. The attachment is a fake ZIP file that supposedly contains a scanned copy of a document that has evidence of your spam, but in reality is an EXE file that contains a Trojan downloader, which pulls in malware.
The subject line varies, and contains threats that are designed to make someone worry and click on the link. This attack was reported on the Websense Blog:
http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2011/09/ 20/_2200_We-are-going-to-sue-you_2200_-spam.aspx
http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2011/09/ 20/_2200_We-are-going-to-sue-you_2200_-spam.aspx
Posted via email from Don Peer
