You have a new voice message

Voice mail” phish has been around for years.
Yet some people see it for the first time and may fall victims. Generally it claims you have a voice message to hear. You click on the attachment but rather than a voice recording it is a html file which contains malware, or in more sophisticated cases – it redirects you to an external web page where you are supposed to hear the promised recording. That page may or may not require credentials – if you put your UVic credentials they get stolen and the attacker has access to all UVic resources that you have access to. The “recording” may in fact be malware which will take control of your workstation the moment you load it.  Moreover in some cases just loading the web page may get your workstation infected.

This is why we always suggest not to be curious and not to click on such links even for a quick look. Our experts open those in dedicated isolated environments.

Same trick is applied with all kinds of  alleged “documents”, for example the subject “Scanned documents” is heavily used by scammers.


Note the sender’s address and the .htm attachment.