Its users Yahoo Mail should be on alert as emails have appeared post officey informing them that they have been infected with DSVX. The fake alerts are part of a new phishing campaign.
A sample of these emails was posted by millersmiles.co.uk. The messages are entitled "DSVX Virus Detected in Your Yahoo Mail Account" and state:
“We have detected a dsvx virus in your Yahoo account! Mail So it's time to update the classic Yahoo! Mail in the new form before you lose access to your email. THE service your e-mail will not be affected and you will be able to keep all your old contacts, folders and messages.”
There are some attachments that are supposed to be malware as they are called "dsvx", but they have nothing to do with the virus. The trick is used to scare unsuspecting users and get them to click on the link contained in the email that is supposed to save them from disaster.
When someone clicks on the link, they are taken to a σελίδα Yahoo Mail phishing. The fake login page replicates the real Yahoo Mail login page.
However, when users enter Yahoo! their ID, their password and press "Login", h information transmitted to a server controlled by cybercriminals. To make the scam even more believable, after the supposed login they redirect their victims to the real Yahoo Mail page.
The phishing website is hosted on a subdomains of altervista.org and is there for at least 24 hours.
