New Zeus emails cloaked as Fed, IRS messages
Small and midsize organizations may want to take note: There is a particularly large Zeus spam campaign making the rounds.
The emails piggyback on two trusted names -- the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service -- to incite recipients to take unwise actions.
Researchers at Barracuda Labs first spotted the huge uptick in the malicious messages on Monday morning, when the emails were blocked before reaching some 120,000 users within 10 minutes.
In particular, the emails claiming to originate from the Federal Reserve appear to target those individuals in charge of an organization's finances. The body of the messages encourage recipients to click on a malicious link for more information about a wire fund transfer that was not processed.
