SPAM MALWARE: You got a voice message! 

WhatsApp delivers #Locky

An email with contain this subject "You got a voice message!" pretending to come from  WhatsApp <Cleo477@gmx.de>  with a zip attachment is another one spam mail who delivered Locky Ransomware.

They use email addresses and subjects that will 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. they has not been hacked or had their email or other servers compromised. They are not sending the emails to you.They are just innocent victims in exactly the same way as every recipient of these emails.

One of the  emails looks like:

{
From: WhatsApp <Cleo477@gmx.de>

Date: Thu 19/05/2016 10:58

Subject: You got a voice message!

Attachment: MSG0002959373787821.wav.zip

Body content:



Attachment:
MSG0002959373787821.wav (08:06 AM)
}





Screenshot of mail

These malicious attachments normally have a password stealing component, with the aim of stealing your bank, PayPal or other financial details along with your email or FTP ( web space) log in credentials. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your Facebook and other social network log in details. A very high proportion are Ransomware versions that encrypt your files and demand money ( about £350/$400) to recover the files.

Never just blindly click on the file in your email program. Always save the file to your downloads folder, so you can check it first. Many malicious files that are attached to emails will have a faked extension.

So we suggested if you see .JS, .EXE, .COM, .PIF,  .SCR, .HTA at the end of the file name DO NOT click on it or try to open it, it will infect your machine or hacked your password...