Cyberheist RUSH Alert

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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:




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Please notify your team about this attack!