TECHNOLOGY, Scammers so friendly Office printers

Hackers have a new hook trick people in malicious attachments open found: emails supposedly coming from Office printers, now have many of them the opportunity to send scanned documents by e-Mail.
"This is a new tactic, we've seen really before," said Paul wood, senior intelligence analyst for Symantec.cloud, Web security and e-Mail branch of the company.
The emails contain always a kind of Trojan Downloader, which can be used to download other malware or steal documents from the computer.
Recently in their latest Symantec Intelligence monthly report, on Tuesday published collected, Symantec published examples of the E-mail. The e-Mails at the first glance look very convincing with the subject line "Fwd: scan of a HP OfficeJet." The e-Mail reads "hyperlinked document scanned and sent OfficeJet 05701J was you with a Hewlett-Packard HP" and then "sent by Morton."
Wood, so it is common that the Scammmers of spying by the name of the sender and it appears that the e-Mail from the same domain as the came, which belongs to the recipient. Some of the messages that captured by Symantec appear in a glance corporate e-Mail, which makes it likely that the person who receives the message, the attachment does not open.
It is a ".zip" file, the odd. Wood said that it is unlikely that most printers with the ability to send in fact a ".zip" file; send e-Mail Send these printers usually disk image, he said.
Although Windows ".zip" can open files, there is evidence that the fraudsters are trying to hide the extension ".zip" for those, use the third-party tools to extract the content. Some archiving seems the malicious attachment in a ".doc" or ".jpg" file extension tools. The hackers file name to make, less likely to distrust awaken manipulated have wood said.
A total said social-engineering technique the observed in the same direction as other methods late, such as E-mail, the allegedly by well-known messengers with various malicious attachments, wood.

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