Be aware of fraudulent alert contains a trojan

Sept. 5, 2012

Unknown attackers are attempting to persuade email recipients to open attachments that contain a trojan by claiming to be from The Google Accounts Team.

Unknown attackers are attempting to persuade email recipients to open attachments that contain a trojan by claiming to be from The Google Accounts Team.

A new email supposedly from "accounts-noreply@google.com" with the subject "Suspicious sign in prevented" is being sent en masse claiming that a hijacker has attempted to access the mail recipient's Google Account. The message says that the sign-in attempt was prevented but asks users to refer to the attached file for details of the attempted intrusion.

According to VirusTotal, included trojan is currently only detected by just half of 42 anti-virus programs used by the online virus scanner service.