{"id":1517,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Fake-National-Australia-Bank-'Monthly-Report'-Email-Contains-Malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Fake National Australia Bank &#8216;Monthly Report&#8217; Email Contains Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to this email, which purports to be from an Accounting Department Specialist at the National Australia Bank (NAB), your monthly account report is included in an attached file.<\/p>\n<p>The email features the NAB logo and red banner and advises that &#8216;all the details are in the attachment&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the email is a scam. NAB did not send it. At first glance, the email may seem to be a typical \u00a0<a title=\"NAB Survey Phishing Scam\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/nab-survey-phishing-scam.shtml\">phishing scam<\/a> \u00a0designed to trick you into divulging your account information via a fake web form.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, however, the attachment contains malware rather than a phishing form. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> Opening the attached .zip file reveals an &#8216;account review&#8217; .exe file. If you click this .exe file, \u00a0<a title=\"Monthly account report nab Bank PLC \u00e2\u20ac\u201c fake PDF malware\" href=\"http:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/monthly-account-report-nab-bank-plc-fake-pdf-malware\/\">malware can be installed<\/a> \u00a0on your computer. Once installed, the malware can then attempt to download a large amount of other malware. This malware may steal your banking and social media account login information and send it to criminals waiting online.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, ransomware may be downloaded. Ransomware can lock the files on your computer so that you can no longer access them and then demand that you pay a fee to receive an unlock key.<\/p>\n<p>Be very wary of any unsolicited email from your bank that instructs you to click a link or open an attached file to update details or view account information.<\/p>\n<h2>Example<\/h2>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p><strong>Subject: Monthly account report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Customer,<br \/>\nWe are forwarding Your monthly report regarding the account. All the details are in the attachment.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<br \/>\nHenry Homenick<\/p>\n<p>Accounting Department Specialist<br \/>\nnab Bank PLC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21860\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-national-australia-bank-monthly-report-email-contains-malware\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,405\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1-300x203.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1.jpg\" alt=\"NAB malware email\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1-500x338.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake-nab-monthly-report-email-contains-malware-1-585x395.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-national-australia-bank-monthly-report-email-contains-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-national-australia-bank-monthly-report-email-contains-malware\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this email, which purports to be from an Accounting Department Specialist at the National Australia Bank (NAB), your monthly account report is included in an attached file. The email features the NAB logo and red banner and advises that &#8216;all the details are in the attachment&#8217;. However, the email is a scam. NAB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}