The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published an advisory to warn small businesses about malicious emails that purport to come from the agency. The emails carry the subject line Pending consumer complaint and they inform recipients that a complaint has been filed against them with the FTC. The links contained in the fake notifications […]
Here’s a normal looking BBB spam, which typically would lead to malware: From: Milford Finn [email protected] Date: 5 March 2012 10:42 Subject: BBB have recieved a customer complaint about your company. Business Owner/Manager, One of your business customers has filed a complaint with The Better Business Bureau concerning the negative experience he had with your […]
Websense Security LabsT and the Websense ThreatSeekerR Network have detected malicious emails posing as a consumer complaint notice from the Federal Trade Commission. Using names of government agencies as a ploy in this kind of malicious attack is anything but new. We have reported that both the National Security Agency and the Federal Reserve were used in malicious […]
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