Business Network Hit By E-Mail Scam
Cyber Security
Firms In Better Business Bureau Get Malicious E-Mail
Thousands of firms belonging to the Better Business Bureau network were hit by an e-mail "spoofing" scam Tuesday. The Washington Post reports that thousands of businesses received e-mails encouraging them to download a malicious computer program. The firms received e-mails that were doctored to look as if they were coming from the Better Business Bureau in order to notify them of a consumer complaint. Council of Better Business Bureaus spokesman Steve Cox said the program accessed the address books of the computers it infected and distributed the e-mail to more recipients. "It is the first time in recent memory where we've had an attack on this scale," Cox said. The e-mails were traced to a marketing firm in Georgia that had no prior affiliation with the organization.
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Tech Daily AM -- 2/14/07
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