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Cybercrime does not stop developing new scams with which to deceive the victim to steal information and ‘hack’ devices. The cybersecurity company ESET has detected a new campaign in which cybercriminals pose as the Santander Bank through email messages. These have incorporated links to a website of the entity where security advice is precisely included in order to give more veracity to the email. “Settlement letter is attached”, can be read in the message. The objective they pursue? get the user to download them to perform a ‘hack‘.
“Despite the fact that the email appears to be well written and this may lead more than one user to open the attached files, there are still details that may make us suspect that we are facing a trap,” says the cybersecurity company.
Without going any further, when opening the compressed file attached to the email with the supposed payment notice, we see how inside it is an executable, when we should see some type of computer document. Although documents in Word and Excel format are also often widely used in malicious code propagation campaigns, coming across an executable file directly should set off all the alarms.
Specifically, the computer virus it is intended to steal information from the infected device. Therefore, if it is downloaded, the user is in danger of leaving his personal and banking information in the hands of cybercriminals.
This is not the first time that cybercriminals have posed as Banco Santander and other entities. On the contrary, it is a fairly common procedure, since criminals are aware that, in this way, it is easier to worry the user and alert him, forcing him to act quickly and end up clicking on sites where which should not.
All cybersecurity experts recommend acting with caution when receiving an email or SMS that invites the Internet user to act in a hurry or try to worry him. The ideal, in these cases, is to be suspicious and not to ‘click’ on any link that accompanies the message. Instead, the Internet user must contact the entity by another means in order to clear up any doubts.
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