Another e-mail SCAM – be warned.

An email with the subject of  Emailing: MX62EDO  10.02.2016 pretending to come from documents@dmb-ltd.co.uk  with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment  is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking Trojans like Dridex or Dyreza and ransomware like cryptolocker or Teslacrypt.

They are using email addresses and subjects that will scare or entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than they do from consumers.

The email looks like:

From: documents@dmb-ltd.co.uk

Date: Wed 10/02/2016 08:18

Subject: Emailing: MX62EDO  10.02.2016

Attachment: MX62EDO  10.02.2016.doc

Body content:

Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link

attachments:

MX62EDO 10.02.2016 SERVICE SHEET

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