Graham Cluley | May 16, 2014 5:29 pm |
Windows users are at risk of having their computers infected, after a malware attack posing as an “important company update” was spammed out.
The emails, which use forged headers to pretend to come from the same domain as your email address (in other words, if you have an email of fred@example.com the email will purport to have been sent from Administrator@example.com) have one unusual trick up their sleeve.
Rather than the malicious file being a plain executable, or a boobytrapped Word or PDF document, the malware is attached as a .gadget file.
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