Security News > 2021 > November > “Customer complaint” email scam preys on your fear of getting into trouble at work
Well, over the past 24 hours, we, and many of our colleagues, have been on the receiving end of an email scam that preys on exactly these fears.
In other words, receiving an email from a "Colleague" whom you don't know, and who doesn't know you, but who seems to have been dragged into a customer "Dispute" that you weren't even aware of yet.
If you download the file, it turns out not to be a PDF, but it isn't the usual sort of well-known suspicious substitute that the crooks often use, such as a VBS file or a JS file file, but a Microsoft App Bundle.
EXE files in disguise, but many users of Windows may not be familiar with them yet, especially if they've never had reason to download work apps from the Microsoft Store.
As you can see, the file is reported as a Trusted App, with a vendor name given as Adobe Inc., but that's as fake as the original email.
Seems a lot of people are dealing with an outbreak of #BazarBackdoor that starts with an email that sounds like it's coming from someone who is annoyed you didn't report a complaint about you.