Welcome to April

You are receiving this email from us as we want to keep our customers computers safe by keeping you informed of potential threats/risks to your computer and your online experience.

This month there is a brand new, zero day, Word exploit.  The document comes as an email attachment, and when it is opened a Trojan is installed.  The Trojan will capture passwords, bank account details etc.

Steps to take:

• The exploit has already been patched, if you are doing regular updates, you have already taken care of the problem.
• However, as a general rule, don’t open attachments or emails with attachments like DOC, DOCX, ZIP, RAR, ISO, PIF, SCR.   By and large, only DOC/DOCX are acceptable between colleagues only, and PDF documents for everyone else.  There really is no viable business reason to use ZIP/RAR files anymore.
• Don’t open emails from yourself to yourself.   (I know, it sounds stupid).  Commonly malicious email comes from an email address like  noreply, scan, scanner, fax  to yourself.  For example, we get them from  noreply@microblastcomputers.com  to drm@microblastcomputers.com    or I might get an email from myself to myself.      Delete them, don’t even bother to open them.

How the word exploit works.

The attack works against Office 2016 on Windows 10 and earlier. The first observed attack was in late January. Recipients of the attack document see a Word file in Microsoft’s Rich Text Format (RTF), however if you open the file, the exploit will connect to a remote server and fetch an executable .hta file containing HTLM application content. The .hta executable contains malicious script written in Microsoft’s Visual Basic. The successful exploit closes the bait Word document, and pops up a fake one to show to you. In the background, the malware has already been stealthily installed on your computer.

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Kind regards

Dale, Vickianne and Taylor

Microblast Computers

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