Personalized spam campaign targets Germany

Mar 20, 2017 in Uncategorized
A new spam campaign targeting German users uses victims’ real details and installs banking malware on compromised computers.

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A spam campaign Symantec observed in January 2017 targeting people who live in Germany appears to be, once again, using detailed, real personal information to enhance the believability of the messages. Victims who open the message attachments are likely to have their Windows computers infected with malware that steals banking information.

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Source: Symantec