According to a research report revelation by Symantac, hackers have devised yet another technique of gimmicking with innocent people. This time, malicious mails seem legitimately coming from office printers and are attached to entice people into opening them.
According to Paul Wood, Senior Intelligence Analyst for Symantec.cloud, a web-based security and e-mail branch, this type of attack can be claimed to be the beginning of another new malware campaign since the use of scanners and printers is the first of its kind. Wood further added that perhaps by using printers and scanners, cyber crooks wanted to create a sense of security among the people, as reported in the news published in COMPUTERWORLD on September 27, 2011.
However, the e-mails invariably constitutes some kind of a Trojan downloader that can be employed towards downloading malware or even take down confidential documents from the computer.
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