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Here’s some disturbing news:\u00a0 Hackers around the world are actively trying to exploit Valentine’s Day. This is according to new research from the Emerging Treats team at the security firm ProofPoint.\u00a0 The team has detected a massive new mal-spam campaign they’ve dubbed “The Love Letter Campaign.”<\/p>\n
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Relying on basic social techniques, this campaign uses subject lines like:<\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s face it, everybody likes getting love letters and the hackers know this.\u00a0 That’s exactly why a disturbing percentage of people receiving “love letters” like this wind up clicking on the attachment (usually a PDF) to download and open it.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, when they do, it fires a malicious JavaScript file that downloads something called “krablin.exe” and executes it.\u00a0 The results aren’t pretty.\u00a0 The victim is infected with a nasty cocktail of malware that includes a cryptojacking miner called Monero XMRig Miner, a copy of the Phorpiex spambot, and GrandCrab Ransomware, which will move immediately to lock all your files and demand payment in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n It’s a thorny issue.\u00a0 Most people only expect to see one type of malware installed per attack. So, odds are that once the victim pays the ransom and gets his or her files back, all the focus will be on getting rid of all traces of that malware. This leaves the other two to run silently in the background, profiting the hackers further.<\/p>\n Although the “love letter” campaign doesn’t sound all that threatening, this is dark and serious business.\u00a0 Be on your guard against it and be sure your employees are aware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s some disturbing news:\u00a0 Hackers around the world are actively trying to exploit Valentine’s Day. This is according to new research from the Emerging Treats team at the security firm ProofPoint.\u00a0 The team has detected a massive new mal-spam campaign they’ve dubbed “The Love Letter Campaign.” \u00a0 Relying on basic social techniques, this campaign uses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n