Hackers disguise malware as emailed docs from smart printers

By John Leyden



Hackers have developed a new ruse designed to trick recipients into opening malicious email messages that come loaded with malware.
The trick involves sending emails that pose as scanned documents from office printers or scanners, forwarded by a work colleague. The unlikely source of attack is liable to fool many users, net security firm Symantec warns.

"The idea of an office printer sending malware is perhaps an unlikely one, as printers and scanners were not actually used in these attacks, but perhaps this sense of security is all that is required for such a socially engineered attack to succeed in the future," said Paul Wood, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Symantec.cloud (formerly MessageLabs).

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