Quoted on Softpedia.com: Bogus eFax Corporate Emails from Craigslist Carry Malware

Posted By: Sorin Mustaca January 25, 2013

Cybercriminals are using a combination of social engineering tactics to trick users into opening malware-spreading emails. Avira experts have come across emails that appear to come from Craigslist, but sent via eFax Corporate.

The messages, which have nothing to do with either Craigslist or eFax, inform recipients that they’ve received a 24-page fax.

However, researchers have discovered that the attachment is not a fax, but an HTML file which contains a maliciou… (read more)

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Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since over 20 years in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is CEO and owner of Endpoint Cybersecurity GmbH focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .