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<p class="MsoNormal">FW: Cyber Threat alert: New Strain of Crypto Locker (cerber2)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all, ( I didn’t see my first email hit the list yet)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is an alert email to be aware of a ransomware attached to email being sent to campus. If you have received this email with the word document, delete immediately without opening the word doc and empty your email trash. <span style="color:#1F497D">Antivirus</span>
appears to be detecting this threat so be sure your machines are updated. Attached are two screen shots from the infected email.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"">Gil Salazar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Deputy Information Security Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">520-626-3651<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><b>Subject:</b> Cyber Notification: New Strain of Crypto Locker (cerber2 )<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in">For your awareness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in">Here are some details for this attack:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in">Emails come in from odd email addresses, one from 67170@gmail, another from a
<a href="mailto:malgeneva@kln.gov.my"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">malgeneva@kln.gov.my</span></a>, and
<a href="mailto:eidauer@uconn.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">eidauer@uconn.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in">When you open it, it looks like the attached file. When the user follows the instructions to enable content the virus runs. It doesn't appear to do anything, but I did notice it deletes all the embedded macros
in the document and highlights everything in the document.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in">After the computer goes to sleep, it goes through an encrypts files in many folders on the computer. So far we have not seen any mapped drives get hit, just C: drive. It leaves 4 files in every folder it encrypts:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"># DECRYPT MY FILES #.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"># DECRYPT MY FILES #.txt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"># DECRYPT MY FILES #.url which takes you to a website # DECRYPT MY FILES #.vbs (which is a script that plays a woman's voice telling you that all your files have been encrypted)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in">Then the encrypted files get letters and characters as names with a .cerber2 extension<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:1.5in">It changes your desktop to the ransom note with a grey speckled background and it plays the script file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">Screen shot of opened word doc. DO NOT ENABLE CONTENT if you have opened this document.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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