“WANNACRY” RANSOMWARE PRECAUTION

A malware called “Wannacry” has been circulating the Internet since 12 May 2017, and has attacked more than 50 companies, both workstations & servers. They are targeting an outdated Windows Operating System.

Fake emails often (but not always) display some of the following characteristics:

• The sender’s email address doesn’t tally with the trusted organisation’s website address.

• The email is sent from a completely different address or a free web mail address.

• The email does not use your proper name, but uses a non-specific greeting like “dear customer”.

• A sense of urgency; for example the threat that unless you act immediately your account may be closed.

• A prominent website link. These can be forged or seem very similar to the proper address, but even a single character’s difference means a different website.

• A request for personal information such as user name, password or bank details.

• The email contains spelling and grammatical errors.

• You weren’t expecting to get an email from the company that appears to have sent it.

• The entire text of the email is contained within an image rather than the usual text format.

• The image contains an embedded hyperlink to a bogus site.

Your cooperation in being extra precaution is highly recommended as MIS team are now visiting every department for updating purpose. These updates may reduce the risk of being attacked.

Reference

Action Fraud