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Malspam Campaign Impersonates UK Businesses to Target Victims With Banking Trojan

December 14th 2018, By Shane Schick

 

Security researchers discovered a malspam campaign targeting British computer users with the Ursnif/Gozi/ISFB Trojan.

 

According to My Online Security, the campaign lures victims with phony messages supposedly coming from one of the United Kingdom’s largest banks and other companies. Details of the attack first surfaced on Twitter, as security experts posted examples of malicious emails that used social engineering to dupe recipients into downloading the banking Trojan.

 

One message that purported to come from Lloyds Bank, for example, was designed to look like a fraud alert and came with a PDF attachment. Targets who clicked on a link to a Google Doc within the PDF wound up launching a VBS file containing the malware binary.

 

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