Ebay suffer new phishing scam
Ebay customers in Germany may be especially confused as a new phishing e-mail landed in their inbox yesterday. The message itself claims that a direct debit order could not be processed and asks users to double check their account details and enter the correct details.
The e-mail body as such is not harmful, however looks authentic with original Ebay hyperlinks. On execution of the attachment (?bill.exe?), a malicious code is downloaded which hides in the background yet displaying a PDF file.
Since the beginning of 2007, web and e-mail users have had to practice patience. During the first days of the year, users were inundated by spam e-mails claiming to be typical household bills such as TV tax bills.
While users are becoming more savvy about these types of threats, it seems that hackers are still persevering and exercising social engineering in order to trick users into running and downloading potentially harmful programmes. The most recent scam in Germany saw users receiving e-mails typically with an invoice attached. Once the attachment was opened, spyware was downloaded onto the computer which could potentially steal sensitive information such as users? bank account details.
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