Cybercriminals have started hitting below the waist. By email post officey tell their recipients that they might have cancer in order to trick them into installing malware on their computers.
Messages are distributed by a spam campaign that exploits its reputation National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) of the United Kingdom. The malicious notifications have as their subject: "IMPORTANT: blood test results" and are supposed to come from no_reply@nice.org.uk.
Malicious messages indicate:
"We have sent a sample of your blood for further investigation. On a general blood count (CBC) the results showed that your white blood cells are very low, and unfortunately cancer is suspected.
We suggest you print the results from the attachment below and see your GP as soon as possible. ”
The file in the message it's not actually the CBC results, but a file (CBC_result_46EA57E17 ), which contains a seemingly harmless PDF. In fact, the file has a double extension and is executable (CBC_scanned_584444449.pdf.exe).
At the time of writing this article, 14 from 50 machines antivirus located in Whole virus they scan the file as malicious.
Only 3 antivirus engines recognize the executable file as a threat.
ESET experts told Softpedia ότι το κακόβουλο λογισμικό είναι μια παραλλαγή του Win32/PSW.Fareit.A Trojan. Η απειλή έχει σχεδιαστεί για να κλέβει τους κωδικούς access and other sensitive information from the infected computers.
NICE, on the other hand, is aware of spam and has issued the following warning on its website:
"NICE is aware that a spam e-mail is being sent to our members about cancer test results. Rest assured that this email is not from NICE and we are currently investigating its origin. If you have received the message, do not open the attachments. "
