Companies warned over DOJ virus variant
Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has issued an alert over spam emails claiming to come from the US Department of Justice (DOJ).
This is not the first attack of its kind – a very similar set of spam was sent out in June. Once again the email warned that a complaint has been made against the recipient.
"These messages contain a malicious attachment that supposedly contains information regarding complaints filed against the recipient's company with the DOJ," said the latest CERT bulletin.
"The attachment launches malware on the user's system when opened."
