DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued OCC Alert 2007-9, warning of fraudulent e-mails messages purporting to originate from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and containing what could be a dangerous download. Please circulate this immediately to your IT department and to senior management for further distribution.
The purported senders:
- FDIC Legal Information Research
- FDIC Information Security
- Verisign, Inc.
The title of the e-mails:
- Regular Security Maintenance
- Regular Hosting Security Maintenance
File they want you to download: vprotect.php
For further information, the Alert is available at:
http://www.occ.gov/ftp/alert/2007-9.html
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