19 February 2010
The following (or similar) email is currently in circulation and should be ignored.The email is addressed from UPS Support Forrest Schmitz < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > and also contains the subject "UPS Delivery Problem NR 31215.".
The email also contains an attachment, eg UPS_invoice _932.zip.
Do not open the attached zip file as it contains malware and may infect your computer.
Hello!
We failed to deliver the postal package which was sent on the 22nd of January in time
because the recipient’s address is wrong.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our department.
United Parcel Service of America.
If you have received a suspicious email from UPS, Westpac, Myspace
etc asking you to open the attached file then this article explains
what happens when the attachment is opened. The attachment contains a
rogue .exe application which installs Zbot We failed to deliver the postal package which was sent on the 22nd of January in time
because the recipient’s address is wrong.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our department.
United Parcel Service of America.
Trojan
on your computer.
Examples of infectious attachments include: UPS_invoice_Nr19373.zip and Facebook_password_37413.zip. Please note that the numbers before the .zip may vary.
Zbot Trojan, aka Infostealer automatically sends financial information like Internet banking login credentials and credit card details.
It also deactivates the Windows firewall when means your computer has no protection from hackers wanting to control your infected computer.
At the time of writing this article many of the current antivirus applications cannot detect this Trojan.
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