Win10 official version is too hot after the release of many users received bitcoin extortion virus sealed false mail

Recently Win10 is indeed enough fire, fire even the liar have come to 趁 "fire" robbed. According to the latest news, Windows 10 has exceeded 67 million installations since its release this week. Faced with such a large user base, scammers also hope to take this opportunity to salvage. There are still many users who have not received an official upgrade reminder. Some users said that they recently received an email from Microsoft asking them to run the attached program to get the update, and they did.

But actually this email was not sent by Microsoft officially. The message looks very realistic; it uses Microsoft's color scheme, the sender's address is [email protected], comes with a disclaimer, and even includes a message saying that the message has been scanned by anti-virus software.

In this fake email, the attachment is essentially a bitcoin extortion virus (CTB-Locker). The files and photos in the infected user device will be locked and encrypted by the virus. The scammer will use the blackmail to pay the bitcoin or Tor to "redeem" their own files and photos, and threaten the victim only 96 hours. The ransom exchange period.

Of course, this email is flawed. If you look closely, you will find that it is tricky. First of all, some of the text in the email is not displayed correctly, and the entire message contains irregular bytes. Even more strange is that the information does not even contain the Microsoft logo, probably the scammers are worried about being sued by Microsoft. However, the most important point is that you must also remember that Microsoft will never send a message with the exe file compression package to the user. In fact, no professional company will do this.

For most users who use computers frequently, this fake email should be easy to see. However, in view of the fact that tens of millions of users have upgraded Windows 10, there are some small white users, so it is still necessary to wake up here. For such cyber fraud, Microsoft has also been disciplined through legal means. However, for individual users, the best way to avoid this kind of situation is to install anti-virus software and back up the system regularly.