Spam campaign targets financial institutions with fake security software

Spam campaign targets financial institutions with fake security software

Emails claim to be from HSBC and ask recipients to install fake Rapport security software.

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Last month, Symantec detected a spam campaign mainly targeting financial institutions, which used social engineering to try trick victims into installing “virus detection software” that was in fact an information stealing Trojan (W32.Difobot).

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