These were announced by our State Office. Just be aware.
July 30, 2008ALL EMPLOYEE BULLETIN -StatewideReports have been received from
employees indicating that the individualsbehind the recent UPS e-mail virus
scams have shifted their focus and arenow trying to lure people with fake
e-mails from the major airlines. Thesee-mails state that a credit card was
charged for an electronic ticket(e-ticket) which is contained in an e-mail
attachment with a name similarto: eTicket#1721.zip. The attachment contains a
virus that doessubstantial damage to the computer, often rendering it unusable,
or itinstalls malicious code to try to obtain banking information.If you
receive an e-mail purporting to be from one of airline companies, donot open
any attachments; delete the e-mail immediately. You should beespecially wary of
all attachments that have the '.zip' file extension asthe scammers are
embedding their malicious code within that file type tomake it past e-mail
filters.If a major airline e-mail attachment is opened on your BLM
workstation,please contact the BLM Help Desk at 1-800-BLM-HELP or e-mail
at800blmhelp@blm.govPlease be suspicious of all e-mail attachments that you
receiveunexpectedly, both at work and at home. You can help protect yourself
athome by utilizing one of the Antivirus products (e.g. Norton,
McAfee,TrendMicro) and keeping it up-to-date.
July 31, 2008 ALL EMPLOYEE BULLETIN-Statewide The FBI issued a warning about
a new round of spam bombarding the Internetto spread the malicious Storm worm.
An article describing the FBIannouncement and the Storm worm attacks can be
found at:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111094
According to the warning, the e-mails contain the phrase “F.B.I. vs.facebook”
and ask recipients to click on a link to view an article aboutthe FBI and
Facebook Inc. that then downloads malicious software.
