Malicious ‘Payment request from’ email attack strikes inboxes

Please be careful. Malicious hackers have spammed out the latest incarnation of a campaign designed to compromise your computer – this time disguising their emails as though they were payment requests from eBay.

The emails have a blank message body, but have a file called form.html attached.

Message characteristics:

Subject: Payment request from
From: “eBay” <[email protected]>
Attachment: form.html

Of course it’s a sneaky piece of social engineering on the behalf of the hackers. Many people would be tempted to open the attachment to find out what on earth the email is about..

And opening the attachment (which Sophos detects as Troj/JSRedir-BV) redirects your web browser to a recently compromised webpage on a legitimate site infected with…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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