My Other House Must Be Huge!
This morning another variation of a malware campaign that has been going on for about 3 weeks now started hitting AppRiver's filters. This campaign began, and has often revisited a United Parcel Service theme, pretending to be a notice that a package you had sent was unable to be delivered. They contain an attachment that you're supposed to print out and take up to the UPS office in order to pick up your package.
Well, this morning, as I mentioned, the theme had changed again. This time the emails pretended to come from a Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. They thank you for your recent payment of $8000 + dollars, and give you your confirmation number and a fake privacy statement. Often times this type of social engineering tactic will attempt to scare you into believing you are being sued, or you owe money on a past due bill, but this one tries to scare you into thinking someone has already made this payment for you. With a random payment amount of over $8000 dollars, it seems this could be a good method for striking fear into a recipient.
Rest assured though that AppRiver had this blocked within its first few minutes of activity.
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