an accidental geek’s misadventures in the I.T. world
17 Nov

This is one of the newer (although kinda stupid) virus spreaders I have seen this year. It sends a UPS notice to a random (in this case even non-existent) email address in your domain with an attachment of a virus disguised as an invoice to be printed out.
Thank goodness our company has invested on a security gateway called Borderware, which prevents malicious emails such as this from wreaking havoc on the network.
A common (and unfortunately, effective) technique for luring
–Snopes.com
Rule is always to check the originating email address. In this case the sender is NOT UPS but “teld@grics.qc.ca”. That itself is a tell-tale sign that the email is fraudulent.
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