Nowadays it is completely normal to send and receive invoices via email. As a rule, this is not dangerous as long as you know what you have bought and who the invoice comes from.
This is more difficult with unknown senders or fake senders. We now have an email that addresses its recipient with their full name and claims to be “Asta-Giessen”. This email refers to an invoice that can be viewed by clicking on a link. The content is:
Subject: Rech F – 861-E2781 [Your Name]
Hello, [Your Name]
see attachment
Rech:
http://magicbrent.
com/ Invoice Details-[***]/[Your Name] Kind regards,
buero@ asta-giessen. de
There are also different variants in which “scans” are mentioned, but interestingly these emails always have the names of personally known people, colleagues or friends as the sender. The indication of the sender is obviously intended to create a basis of trust.
Trojans!
However, this link does not hide an invoice or scan, but rather malware that is intended to get onto the computer via a Trojan. Trojans are programs that appear to be harmless, useful files, in this case an invoice. In fact, they only disguise themselves as harmless software, but in reality the program causes immense damage to the device. This is also the case here: when analyzing the link, Kaspersky Web Anti-Virus directly.
Links to clouds or external sites that offer seemingly harmless files are often links to Trojans. We therefore recommend deleting this supposed invoice directly without clicking on the link.
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