More contract malware spammed out

Graham Cluley
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The start of a new week has brought some minor variations to the contract malware I warned you about on Friday.

The malicious messages that are being spammed out are pretending to be changes to a contract – some related to business activities with well known firms like Johnson & Johnson, Starbucks or Google, and others pretending to be connected with a retirement plan.

Here are a couple of examples:

retirement

johnson

The dangerous files attached to these emails in the samples we’re seeing in our traps are called contract.zip or New_Contract.zip. Sophos intercepts them as Troj/Invo-Zip.

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Graham Cluley is an award-winning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s, he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, makes regular media appearances, and hosts the popular "Smashing Security" podcast. Follow him on LinkedIn, Bluesky and Mastodon, or drop him an email.

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