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Computer Software => Security => Topic started by: tbailey2 on August 05, 2015, 07:09:11 PM

Title: That's not an Ofcom email about your radio licence – it's a TROJAN
Post by: tbailey2 on August 05, 2015, 07:09:11 PM

Any other Radio Amateurs on the forum need to take notice of this NOW  :-\

The Register

(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/05/spoofed_ofcom_emails_sending_out_a_virus/)Fake emails purporting to be from Ofcom Spectrum Licensing have been sent to lots of radio hams.A number of Register readers have been in touch to say that they have received an email supposedly from the address spectrum.licensing@ofcom.org.uk


I got one an hour ago but luckily hadn't opened it as had already seen the El Reg message....

Title: Re: That's not an Ofcom email about your radio licence – it's a TROJAN
Post by: kitz on August 05, 2015, 09:55:39 PM

Before I'd even got half way down the article, because it was specifically targeting hams I began suspecting some sort of security breach somewhere.  My first guess would be a forum used by radio hams.

Title: Re: That's not an Ofcom email about your radio licence – it's a TROJAN
Post by: Weaver on August 05, 2015, 11:18:17 PM

Does it have an executable attached to it?

Title: Re: That's not an Ofcom email about your radio licence – it's a TROJAN
Post by: 4candles on August 06, 2015, 05:26:38 PM

Quote from: tbailey2 on August 05, 2015, 07:09:11 PM

Any other Radio Amateurs on the forum need to take notice of this NOW  :-\

Thanks for the heads-up.   :)

Title: Re: That's not an Ofcom email about your radio licence – it's a TROJAN
Post by: tbailey2 on August 06, 2015, 05:55:58 PM

Quote from: kitz on August 05, 2015, 09:55:39 PM

Before I'd even got half way down the article, because it was specifically targeting hams I began suspecting some sort of security breach somewhere.  My first guess would be a forum used by radio hams.

Well that won't be how they got mine, directly anyway....