Beware of the fraud of the Revenue Agency's false email

Is called ransomware and it is a typology of malware which limits the access of the device it infects, requiring a ransom to be paid to remove the limitation. In the most common case, this malware blocks the system and instructs the user to pay a fee to proceed with unlocking. Here, in the last hours, through a false email dell 'Revenue Agency, some pirates of the network have implemented his fraud computer technology.

Malware, or "malicious code", just to be clear, is any computer program used to disrupt the operations performed by a user of a computer.

The public administration technicians, in fact, have issued an alarm about a fake electronic communication of theRevenue Agency which contains, in fact, a so-called ransomware. The message delivered pretends to be an official communication and requires you to download and read an attachment which, however, contains a ransomware: opening it, a "diabolical" process is triggered which encrypts the files in the computer and keeps them hostage waiting for a ransom.

And then the Computer Emergency Response Team of the Public Administration launched the alert.

THE'e-mail it is very comfortable, but it has always been the favorite medium used by the hackers to carry out scams of various types, starting with the infamous phising. Phishing, let us explain, is a scam by which a rogue 2.0 deceives his prey by convincing her to provide personal information, financial data or access codes, posing as a trustworthy entity in digital communication.

The email in question, using the Inland Revenue form, uses its name and logo to download it to computers. And it is at this point, once the download of the file, that the Maze ransomware comes into play and makes its dirty game.

Unfortunately, it is all but a novelty: in fact, only in the past few weeks, the Revenue Collection Agency had reported to the competent authorities – in addition to all users – the existence of attempts to fraud through a false "registered mail" that arrives that aims to steal personal data and bank credentials of those who fall for it.

How to defend yourself? First of all, first of all, a little common sense. Therefore, do not trust or open suspicious attachments as if nothing had happened, especially if they arrive from unknown e-mail addresses. In secundis, do – always and in any case – a quick check on the sender of the message, verifying the actual authenticity of the address and the domain.