Again UPS Invoice Spam is clogging the Email inboxes. As usual, these Emails don’t stem from UPS; instead, they carry a virus as attachment. The Email tries to look misdirected to the current receiver and claims that the intended receiver has tried to track a package and requested that attached invoice.zip.

According to the Internet Storm Center (ISC) the detection of the trojan by antivirus products is bad. At least Avira detects it without an update as TR/Crypt.FKM.Gen and could protect its users. Users should not open files they receive as Email attachment that they didn’t ask for. When in doubt, contact the sender by phone and ask if the attachment was really sent by her/him.

Dirk Knop
Technical Editor