Hackers Disguise Malware As Emailed Docs From Smart Printers

snoopy · Sep 29, 2011

Hackers disguise malware as emailed docs from smart printers

Clever ruse to catch out office workers
By John Leyden •
Posted in Malware, 28th September 2011 13:39 GMT

Hackers have developed a new ruse designed to trick recipients into opening malicious email messages that come loaded with malware. The trick involves sending emails that pose as scanned documents from office printers or scanners, forwarded by a work colleague. The unlikely source of attack is liable to fool many users, net security firm Symantec warns.

"The idea of an office printer sending malware is perhaps an unlikely one, as printers and scanners were not actually used in these attacks, but perhaps this sense of security is all that is required for such a socially engineered attack to succeed in the future," said Paul Wood, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Symantec.cloud (formerly MessageLabs).

Symantec said in its September 2011 report that spam levels in the UK have hovered around 75.5 per cent for the month, a decrease of 1.1 percentage points when compared with its August 2011 report. One in 129.9 emails (0.77 per cent) was blocked as malicious during September. Spam emails containing links to compromised websites containing vulnerable WordPress installations rose during the month.
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Full details here - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/28/smart_printer_malware_ruse/

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