Symantec Discovers Fake Energy Bill Campaign Serving Crypto Malware

The leading security solutions vendor company Symantec has recently discovered a new fraudulent campaign, which disguises itself as to be sent from a legitimate Australian energy company to serve a crypto locker into the victim’s computer.

This fraud campaign is sending out emails which appear to be a legitimate electronic bill complete with a balance outstanding. The targeted victims have to click on the link present on the bill to view their outstanding bill. Once they do that they are directed to a URL where they have to enter the CAPTCHA code that appears on the page. However, in reality this code doesn’t change. Once the victim enters the code as shown, he/she will get directed to next page containing link to download the bill.

This download file is actually the malicious code; the crypto locker ‘Trojan.Cryptolocker’, which is what the attackers want victims to believe. This virus is disguised with a PDF file icon. On running a deep analysis of the virus, Symantec found out that virus is not the original crypto locker and is just a copy. But on execution, it does encrypt the data of compromised computer.

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