UK, US users hit with credit card-themed spam spreading ransomware

  • 2 March 2016
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Zeljka Zorz - Managing Editor  March 2, 2016
 
Symantec researchers have spotted an unusual ransomware delivery campaign hitting mostly UK and US users: fake emails apparently coming from Visa are urging recipients to “take advantage of even more rewards and benefits in 2016.”
 
The email does, at first glance, look like it’s coming from an legitimate commercial source – it even contains advice for the recipient to not include credit card details in any correspondence:
 
                   


 
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Good article and informative but I don't respond to these emails that is for sure.
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Here's a quick and easy tip on spotting malicious emails like this:
 
The attachment being a .zip file is a dead giveaway. For the most part, document files will not be attached in .zip files. 
 
-Dan

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