A New One On Me (attack type)

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

contact@seek theworkpc[dot] com To: [me] 01/06/2023 10:15 We've removed a virus from your email An email sent to you has been cleaned and the infected attachment removed, as it contained a computer virus. The original plain text message is shown below. What next? If the email is important, contact the sender and ask them to carry out anti-virus checks before resending or removing any attachments.

[The e-post has an attachment the criminals obviously hope you will open rather than simply forwarding the whole message to the BT and Gove.uk phishing report services.]

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Innovative,!

But emphasises the need, NOT to click on on (or to ,pressanother key on a phone ) on an unsolicited E mail from an unknown source.

"Delete" to Trash and then delete from there is my technique for such thinbgs

Howard.

[HOWARDTParticipant @howardt]

I have had a similar email purporting to be from BT saying my email service will be terminated for some reason. Just delete and ignore.

[Tim StevensParticipant @timstevens64731]

The interesting detail about the BT 'we are going to change your service' messages (see HowardT above) is that there are four places to click on, for widely different things, yet they all take you to exactly the same place. And no, I didn't fall for it, I just hovered over the underlined words and up popped the full code.

Cheers, Tim

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

This message did not have anything in itself that would show its own code by hovering over it, but the 'View Source' tool analysis did contain this rather intriguing note:

" This is a multi-part MIME message.
If you see this text, your mail client may not be able to understand MIME
formatted messages (see RFC 2045 through 2049 for further information) "

I looked up MIME on Wikipedia, to find it is a standard set of techniques for constructing e-messages containing other than ASCII text characters. The article soon lost me but I think it's something the user would not normally know even exists. I take it the "client" is actually the receiving computer or some intermediate server, so its comprehension is as it has been programmed. Not the computer's user.

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