Germans bombarded in malware attack, shipment firm caught in crossfire forced to suspend email address

A particularly vociferous malware campaign has been forcefully spammed out in the last 24 hours, targeting German internet users.

The malicious emails, which have are intercepted by Sophos security products, contain an attachment which pretends to be a PDF file, and claim to come from an air shipment company and use the subject line “Luftfrachsendung AWB”.

Here is an example of a typical email that was intercepted by the team at SophosLabs…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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