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ARTICLE · 19 JULY 2016

Hacked By A Purchase Order. How It Can Happen

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It was just another day at the office. Morning coffee in one hand and in the other my mouse was going through the unread emails in my mailbox. Then, there it was.

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Article by Bjorn Leenen.

It was just another day at the office. Morning coffee in one hand and in the other my mouse was going through the unread emails in my mailbox. Then, there it was. I received an email with a purchase order from a certain Heikal Mahsir, with an attachment that is supposed to be an order they wanted to place with me. Normally I wouldn't open these attachments and they would go straight into the trash, but just to humour myself I opened purchase.pdf.

Up to this point my local scanner did not warn me and this email also made it through my spam filter. Apparently this is not a harmful attachment. Opening the PDF showed me the following:

The CLICK link told my browser to go to: http://www.mesaimeerclub.com/templates/invest/just (this page does not work anymore but please, for safety reasons stay away from it).

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