14 DAY TRIAL // Users are warned about a spam campaign that leverages the name of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in an effort to distribute malware.
The emails are entitled “FDIC: Your business account” and they read something like this:
“Dear Business Customer, We have important information about your financial institution. Please View to find further details. This includes information on the acquiring bank (if applicable), how your accounts and loans are affected, and how vendors can file claims against the receivership.”
The links from the fake FDIC notifications don’t point to any details. Instead, they take the victim, via multiple redirects, to a malware-serving website.
If you come across such emails, refrain from clicking on the links. Also, make sure all your software is updated since this decreases the changes of your computer becoming infected with malware.
Additional technical details on this spam campaign are available on Webroot’s blog.