Sophos Cloud Optix
Internet users are being warned about a malware attack that has been spammed out widely, posing as a communication from YouTube about copyrighted video content.
The emails, which have the subject line “Your video may have illegal content”, pretend to come from Google’s YouTube team.
Here’s an example:
Subject: Your video may have illegal content
Attached file: Content_ID755658_Matches.zipMessage body:
Your video may have content that is owned or licensed by Music Publishing Rights Collecting Society.No action is required on your part; however, if you are interested in learning how this affects your video, please open attached file with Content ID Matches section of your account for more information.
Sincerely,
- The YouTube Team
The attached ZIP file, however, contains the Troj/Agent-XXC Trojan horse.
Sophos anti-virus products have been capable of detecting the malware since September 25th – but users of products from other vendors may not be as well protected.
Always be suspicious of unsolicited emails – and don’t rush to click on unexpected attachments.
"Music Publishing Rights Collection Society"
There's your clue that this is BS. No further reading required.
Well, yeah, presuming your native language is English.
Check the language also: most of these scams’ structure of the words is quite off.
In the above, it ought to be “the attachment” not attachment