ROM-DOS Posted November 22, 2005 CID Share Posted November 22, 2005 Fake FBI e-mails deliver viruses Posted on Tue, Nov. 22, 2005 http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/13233381.htm Messages that appear as if they Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted November 22, 2005 CID Share Posted November 22, 2005 I bet they're from the CIA. Seriously, never open an attachment from someone you don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted November 22, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 22, 2005 I bet they're from the CIA. Seriously, never open an attachment from someone you don't know. . . .or don't trust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammolo Posted November 22, 2005 CID Share Posted November 22, 2005 Even if you do know the source, its good practice to make a virus scan of the attachment before opening it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkieXL Posted November 23, 2005 CID Share Posted November 23, 2005 This is definitly one for the Cigarette Smoking Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted November 24, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 Fake CIA, FBI E-Mails Power Sober Worm http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/fake_cia_fbi_em.html Several new versions of the "Sober" e-mail worm have been mass-spammed to millions of e-mail boxes of the last 72 hours, posing as messages from the FBI and the CIA warning recipients that their Internet address has been implicated in illegal activity online. The messages obviously were not sent by either agency, but any recipient who clicks on the attachment carried in the e-mail may indeed soon find their computers involved a variety of illegal activities at the hands of the virus authors. Both the CIA and the FBI have posted warnings about this latest worm on their Web sites. FBI spokesperson Cathy Milhoan said the agency has been swamped with calls from people who received the e-mails because the message includes the actual phone number for the FBI headquarters in Washington. She said FBI operators have had their hands full routing calls and complaints to its Internet Crime Complaint Center in West Virginia, which received more than 4,000 complaints about the worm on Monday alone. The ICC typically receives 18,000 complaints each month. Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure calls the latest Sober outbreak the largest e-mail worm epidemic so far this year. UK-based e-mail security company MessageLabs said it has intercepted more than 2.7 million copies of Sober and its variants, noting that "the size of the attack indicates that this is a major offensive, certainly one of the largest in the last few months." The Sober worm uses its own e-mail engine to blast copies of itself out to all of the addresses found on an infected computer. Sober kills a long list of security applications that may be running, including anti-virus and firewall software, and prevents the victim from visiting a long list of security-related Web sites. Finally, it opens a backdoor on the infected machine, allowing attackers to upload whatever software they want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted November 24, 2005 CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 Definatly MI-6 this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 24, 2005 CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 Shoot man, I wouldn't open it even if it really was from the FBI! I'd probably say to myself "F*ck this! More Options>Move to Trash" What a great idea for a virus though, I have to say. So ROM, your saying that if I recieve an email from the FBI, open it immediatly, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsnet2k8 Posted November 24, 2005 CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 You have just won a big prize!!! click here to get your computer destroyed!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted November 24, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 So ROM, your saying that if I recieve an email from the FBI, open it immediatly, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 24, 2005 CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 Haha, Why? I don't get what your trying to say... Hey, thanks Ray!! I'll make sure to click on that link entitled this_is_a_virus.txt you PM'd me...thanks man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsnet2k8 Posted November 24, 2005 CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 ha ha ha!! i hardly open e-mails from friends' when they tell me they sent me an e-mail i feel bad cause its been weeks since they did and never checked' much less would i open an FBI or you won a price or i have a surprise for you e-mail' Common sense' you will never win anything on the net and ur surprise will get ur computer fried and if the FBI sent u a e-mail they would be at ur place before you open it......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 24, 2005 CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 yeah, I can second that. I'd just lock the doors then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted November 24, 2005 CID Share Posted November 24, 2005 You can report these emails at the Internet Crime Complaint Center = http://www.ic3.gov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 I don't know if I trust that link... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 I don't know if I trust that link... You probably shouldn't leave the house....unless it's straight to the shrink's and back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 Ok, I'm going to trust you this time doc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 Ok, I'm going to trust you this time doc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 26, 2005 CID Share Posted November 26, 2005 I know man, I know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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