Spam email from Carpenters address

[CanberraR3]

I note their site appears to be down at the moment too.

If it's the same one that hit us then that would most likely be part of stage one, but could be a precaution. Our hit came via the e-mail link on the website. We got a 17yo and his 15yo brother onto it. The 17yo has previously been approached by the police to work in their cybercrime unit. Our regular IT guy had no idea what do. Took our geeks 2 days to fix it about 98% and still mopping up, but a lot of businesses will be absolutely rooted. Police had no interest at all, by the way. There's even a risk that we could be exposed to damages claims from the emails the virus caused to be sent out.

 

[Joesmoe]

A sad aspect of the world in which we live, and real life demonstration that evil exists in the world, and the writers of villains of old in Batman and Superman, and Shakespeare, and Homer were right on, and only the tech has changed.

And what you describe Herr @CanberraR3 is far more prevalent and hurtful than all the bad we see on our news outlets.

I feel for you, and I burn the quiet burn for the time the tech upon which we have come to depend will be more robust and less prone to exploitation.

And meanwhile, real businesses have to live with this now, as you relate.

May you soon put this behind you, and think about Linux ? Something . . .

 

[ruzzle]

Got one here in Oz too... and it's years since I last used the Carpenter email address. Can't imagine that they've hacked MY emails, so probably have hacked Bob's??

Got a similar thing a year or two back purportedly from Richard Canberra R3.... at least he says it wasn't from him.... had a lot of **** links on it....

 

[GPMAZ]

Got a similar thing a year or two back purportedly from Richard Canberra R3.... at least he says it wasn't from him.... had a lot of **** links on it....

That wasn't spam Ruzz, that was taunting.

 

[TriumPhil]

Thanks to a heads up from Ruzzle, I didn't open the attachment and reported it as spam to Google.

 

[cr0ft]

Basically, never open any attachments you get in e-mail. There is a lot of ransomware going around. I thought I had secured the work machines pretty well but there was a small chink in the armor and one of my users activated the Locky ransomware. Took me an hour or so to clean up, but had to delete and recreate the user's account and roll back to some earlier snapshots in our storage to go back in time to where the ransomware hadn't as yet encrypted anything. Well, I also had to trash a server and recover that from backups but since it was part of a redundant cluster we just ran at 50% capacity for an hour or so.

For home users, it gets a bit more challenging to recover files if you don't have backups, which you should in this day and age. You can back up to a cloud service like Carbonite or better yet CrashPlan.

Ransomware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's a pretty safe way for criminals to extort people out of their hard earned cash. The best way to avoid it it just to consider all attachments you get sent to be potential plague carriers and never open them. Unless perhaps if you agree beforehand that someone should send you one.

It's very easy to masquerade as someone else when sending email at first glance. There's going to be hidden information in the email that shows it's not really you or Carpenter Racing etc, but most people don't inspect hidden email headers. So beware mail attachments, and keep your systems patched.

 

[scot in exile]

Got one here in Oz too... and it's years since I last used the Carpenter email address. Can't imagine that they've hacked MY emails, so probably have hacked Bob's??

Got a similar thing a year or two back purportedly from Richard Canberra R3.... at least he says it wasn't from him.... had a lot of **** links on it....

For scientific reasons only could you please forward me the email that Richard sent you

 

[Trirocket3]

Yes I got one yesterday supposedly from Bob 2coolerbob ref Robert Carpenter
looked suss so deleted it.

 

[Jag]

I opened mine up and it said first person to my shop on Monday morning gets a free silverback!! Just got home with my new free bike!! Thanks guys!!!! Lol

 

[IMFASTTOO]

I opened mine up and it said first person to my shop on Monday morning gets a free silverback!! Just got home with my new free bike!! Thanks guys!!!! Lol

YOUR WELCOME and they thought that was SPAM LOL