11/18/2025
Wanted to share an email i sent to my staff today about a Hacking Alert. I'm including the email without the attachment so folks are aware of an issue effecting a lot of our customers.
This is a fishing attack we got in our email, The file is relatively harmless and wont flag as a virous but it was sent as a settlement offer. I moved it to a secure pc then started playing with it. It simply takes you to a fake Microsoft login and there are some compressed java files that run and it ships off your user name and password to the creator then tells you your password was wrong then forwards you to Microsoft's actual log in where you log in successfully and find no letter. Most customers will never know there Microsoft account has been compromised.
We need to watch out for these and also make our customers aware. The file is safe to play with just don't use actual Microsoft credentials or the account can be stolen at the hackers discursions. However I think this is a hack and don't take over the account kind of attack. Once they have the credentials the have access to one drive backups, credit card and account information and possible remote access depending on the account configuration.
Always remember Microsoft, Google or any other major provider will never ask you to call them, or tell you need there help to fix a problem, and un expected emails with un known attachment's or that take you to log in to another account you have are inevitably an attack or fishing. Only log into your accounts when you go to them to log in never log in after being redirected from a link to another document or program.
This is becoming a big problem and is the majority of account hacks.
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