{"id":1549,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Fake-Vodafone-Bill-Emails-Contain-Malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Fake Vodafone Bill Emails Contain Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Inboxes are currently being hammered by &#8216;bill&#8217; emails purporting to be from mobile phone service provider Vodafone. The brief messages, which are signed by &#8216;Your Vodafone Team&#8217;, contain an invoice number and issue date for a current bill and ask that you pay the bill by a specified date. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The emails include an attached .zip file that supposedly contains the invoice.<\/p>\n<p>However, Vodafone certainly did not send these emails and the attachment does not contain a phone bill. Instead, the \u00a0<a title=\"Troj\/Invo-Zip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/threat-center\/threat-analyses\/viruses-and-spyware\/Troj~Invo-Zip.aspx\">attached .zip file contains a trojan<\/a> \u00a0that, once opened, can install further malware on the infected computer.<\/p>\n<p>The malware installed by the trojan may steal personal information such as passwords from the infected computer and send it to cybercriminals. It may also allow criminals to take control of the compromised computer and join it to a botnet.<\/p>\n<p>Details such as the supposed payment date and invoice number may vary in different versions of the malware emails.<\/p>\n<p>Fake bill or invoice notifications that pretend to be from various well-known companies are a very \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/category\/malware\/\">common method of distributing malware<\/a>. Be wary of any unsolicited email that claims that you must pay or review an invoice by clicking a link or opening an attached file. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>An example of the malware email:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Subject: Fwd: Your Vodafone email bill for 14-03-2015 to 15-04-2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please pay by 30 Apr 2015<\/p>\n<p>Invoice No. 1111309307<br \/>\nDate of Issue 15 Apr 2015<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<br \/>\nYour Vodafone team<\/p>\n<p><em>Attachment Name: Download_Bill.zip<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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-vodafone-bill-emails-contain-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-vodafone-bill-emails-contain-malware\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inboxes are currently being hammered by &#8216;bill&#8217; emails purporting to be from mobile phone service provider Vodafone. The brief messages, which are signed by &#8216;Your Vodafone Team&#8217;, contain an invoice number and issue date for a current bill and ask that you pay the bill by a specified date. \u00a0 The emails include an attached [&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-1549","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\/1549"}],"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=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/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=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}