ESET Ireland has been seeing an increased amount of a new fake email, which claims to come from an email provider and asks the receiver to click a link and “update account recovery information” using their actual email address as bait and threatening to close their email account if “not verified in 48 hours”:
Hi <receiver’s email address>,
Starting from Friday, 07 Aug 2015 We’ll be updating the terms and privacy statement for your account due to recent security incidents online.
Your E-mail Account, (<receiver’s email address>) need to be verified as required by our new online security policy. Failure to verify within 48hours will result in permanent closure.
please click HERE to update your account recovery information.
Thanks for taking these additional steps to keep your account safe.
Thanks
E-MAIL TEAM
Such emails fall in the social engineering category of phishing, since they “bait” the victim with a promise or a threat, to complete an action the attackers want them to. In this case to click a link, leading to their page, where they either can either get the victim’s email password, or infect their computer with malware.
Upon receiving such emails, do not click on the links in them, mark them as spam and delete them. Never reply to them, as this can just verify to the attackers they’re dealing with a live email account and can try to attack it further.[su_box title=”About ESET Ireland” style=”noise” box_color=”#336588″] ESET Ireland will keep your hardware and software performing as it should. The company has hundreds of people around the world working hard every day so customers’ computers, tablets, smartphones and servers are properly protected. Our solutions for home and business segment deliver a continual and consistent level of protection against a vast array of existing and emerging threats. All with minimal impact on their performance. At ESET, dedicated to developing high-performing security solutions for home users and corporate customers, keeping out all known and emerging forms of malware. ESET has global headquarters in Bratislava (Slovakia) and regional distribution centers in San Diego (U.S.), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Singapore. ESET has offices in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Prague (Czech Republic).[/su_box]
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