MALWARE ALERT: Christmas Card Delivery Failure Email

Reports are beginning to increase regarding delivery failure emails showing up in client inboxes for messages they did not send. Within the body of the email is a malicious link, which may appear to be to a company greeting card.

We believe one of two things is happening here.

1) A spammer is spoofing the client’s email address as the sender of a phishing email and as a result the failure notices are coming to the client’s inbox.

or

2) This is a clever phishing email disguised as a delivery failure notice.

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