Received an airline e-ticket lately? Well, better stay clear of it. According to internet protection company Websense, they have recently stumbled across a new threat involving fake e-tickets. The company went on to say that their Threat Seeker Network has come across users receiving a number of fake airline e-tickets in their email. These emails contain very malicious attachments that can damage and steal personal information from computers.
Currently, most of the fake e-tickets look like they are coming from KLM, which is the Dutch flagship airline. Most of the time the email will have the subject line: “KLM e-Ticket.” To make matters even worse, it appears that the fake tickets use a legitimate layout used by KLM. This makes it very hard to tell the fakes from the real tickets. However, the fake tickets will not display the itinerary information. The fake email asks for users to download the attachment to see their itinerary.
On September 17 alone, Websense said that they intercepted close to 850,000 of these messages. Thus this is a huge campaign that could be affecting people all over the world. For anyone that has received this email, they should be fine as long as they did not download the attachment that is attached to the email.
This is not the first time that malicious software has been hidden in emails that look like free e-Tickets. The people who have not ordered any tickets from KLM should know right away that something is fishy when they receive an email like this. People who are expecting KLM e-tickets should check with the airline and get their tickets verified that way.
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