I've seen a few like this. Some may be malicious, but some look as if they
had simply been mis-directed. Obviously not for me: kill it.
There seems to have been a general increase in spam e-mail from Murrkin
sources, especially those offering to help with exploiting US-government
housing and welfare schemes and the like.
Whatever other faults it may have, I think gmail does a very good job of
identifying correctly those items which belong in the spam bucket.
Chris
On 22 April 2016 at 00:28, Daniel Llewellyn <diddledan@???> wrote:
>
> On 21/04/16 21:10, Ian Park wrote:
> > "Purchase Order, 11300 / 0002323808, has been Dispatched. Please detach
> > and print the attached Purchase Order."
> >
> > The attachment was a .tgz file containing a 6.2kB javascript file - a
> > method of attack which I haven't seen before. Needless to report that I
> > didn't attempt to run said javascript file! Has anyone else come across
> > this method of attack?
>
> Yes, I've seen many similar to these over the past month. They started
> sending sometime in february or march and my own spambox has been
> inundated with variations on the theme trying to catch-me-out and get me
> to open one of the malware-laden attachments.
>
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