A new, large scale malicious spam, posing as an email from courier firm DHL is on the loose, warned IT security and control firm Sophos today.It said in a statement here that internet users would receive messages that the courier company had tried to deliver a parcel to them on March 14.
"The messages also stated that they needed to print out the attached invoice which contained a zip file and bring it to the DHL office," it explained.
According to Sophos, computer users who fell for the scam and opened 'dhl_n756512.zip' would not see an invoice but actually download a malicious Trojan horse, known as Troj/Agent-JJP onto their computers, giving hackers remote access.
The emails all used the subject line, 'DHL Tracking number' but had a randomly generated reference number it said, adding that the scam was the second in the space of a week masquerading as DHL.
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