Dangerous: Hackers are now sending regular mail to homes to hack people Beware of this new scam
The sophistication of scams has reached such a point that even regular mail is no longer safe. In Switzerland, a very interesting and dangerous situation has occurred: scammers and attackers are using letters to infect devices. How is this possible? Inside the regular mail message there is a QR code that users scan without knowing that they are giving access to attackers.
It was the NCSC or the National Cyber Security Centre in Switzerland that issued a notice to all residents of the European country. What it says is that the attackers are pretending to be the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, and the messages they send contain information about a new Android app that they should download as soon as possible.
The app is called “Severe Weather Warning App” and the scam was created because Switzerland has a government weather information app. The attackers are taking advantage of this situation to urge recipients to download the new app, all in a trap to infect devices and then gain access to information and control over the devices.
To access this application, it is necessary to scan the QR code that accompanies the information contained in the regular mail message they received. This code opens the door to a third-party site and not to the Google Play Store, which is the first warning that it is an untrustworthy application. Unfortunately, not all users are so careful and many of them continue this process and download the application.
When it is downloaded, the device is infected with a different version of the Cooper Trojan virus. This malware is dangerous and aims to steal user information, and in order to do so, it is capable of intercepting keys or passwords for two-step verification systems. It is logical that the purpose of this Trojan is to obtain users’ banking information and steal their money.
This ability allows the Trojan to empty bank accounts, leaving users completely stunned by the situation. This situation is of concern to Swiss authorities because the scope of the attack is unknown, and the format of the message makes it difficult to track and count the exact number of people who have been attacked by this new scam.