If you receive an e-mail from Newegg or Amazon, double-check it first. There are spoofed purchase confirmation emails being sent out from these online retailers with attached invoices. The email will be sent to your email address, but if you check the fine print in the email, you’ll notice the customer email address within the Newegg or Amazon email body is not yours. The invoice attachment is most likely malicous so don’t open it to avoid being
infected with a virus.
Currently, this spoofed email is under the radar of all of the antivirus sofware out there. This means that antivirus software nor antispam cannot block these emails. Even the new Postini antispam service by Google doesn’t block this!
So, what do you do if you receive these spoofed emails?
- Delete the e-mail from your inbox and deleted items.
- Change your email password.
- Make sure your antivirus software is updated. Eventually it will receive the ability to block this type of email with future updates.
- Make sure your antivirus has built-in antispam protection. If not, Cloudmark Desktop is a good solution for protecting individual computers while Postini is fantastic for company antispam protection.
For businesses that want this handled properly, we provide cybersecurity assessments and monitoring for NYC offices.
