News Scammers Distribute Fake Microsoft Office USB Sticks With Malware

[Admin]

Fraudsters send fake Microsoft Office USB drives to gain PC access and demand ransom.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Package: CD Key Only - No Disc
Package: Contains drive

Yeah, nothing suspect about that at all....

 

[USAFRet]

Package: CD Key Only - No Disc
Package: Contains drive

Yeah, nothing suspect about that at all....

You say that, but I know some people who would plug that into their PC.

And then, when their AV said 'DANGER!"
...they would purposely bypass and ignore.

Heck...we see those people here every day.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

You say that, but I know some people who would plug that into their PC.

And then, when their AV said 'DANGER!"
...they would purposely bypass and ignore.

Heck...we see those people here every day.

I think we're all related to people like that who would then call us to help them.

 

[Gam3r01]

You say that, but I know some people who would plug that into their PC.

And then, when their AV said 'DANGER!"
...they would purposely bypass and ignore.

Heck...we see those people here every day.

Can confirm, nearly every single person working in my office would have done so.
We had a software get updated and it got flagged by our systems as unsafe, so I asked IT about it and they said nobody mentioned it yet. Asked around and everyone else just bypassed the warning and installed anyway.

 

[Geef]

Buys box that says:

Micorsoft Off ice
Install USB

 

[-Fran-]

WHERE CAN I GET A COPY?

Asking for a friend.

Regards xD

 

[dimar]

Where did these people purchase it from? Amazon or somewhere else?

 

[USAFRet]

Where did these people purchase it from? Amazon or somewhere else?

They did not purchase it:
"Scammers from the U.K. send USB drives with Microsoft's Office suites in seemingly real Microsoft packaging to random addresses trying to make victims think that they received a legitimate Office Professional Plus (worth $439) by mistake. "

 

[husker]

Wait a minute. Users plug a USB drive into their computer, and the scammers still require them to call in and hand over control during the call? I'm no hacker, but it seems to me that if you got someone to plug in a USB drive you should be able to install the ransomware that way.

 

[USAFRet]

Wait a minute. Users plug a USB drive into their computer, and the scammers still require them to call in and hand over control during the call? I'm no hacker, but it seems to me that if you got someone to plug in a USB drive you should be able to install the ransomware that way.

Thats the way a LOT of these scams work.
Throw up a screen saying "You are infected! Cal 555-1212 to fix"

Actually getting something to install requires at least a couple of slicks, and maybe a password.
It goes MUCH easier if a nice man on the phone is helping you 'fix' your system...😉

 

[JeffreyP55]

You say that, but I know some people who would plug that into their PC.

And then, when their AV said 'DANGER!"
...they would purposely bypass and ignore.

Heck...we see those people here every day.

How do you know my wife? No matter how I try to wake her up about her methods of madness. She still presses the wrong button when it is a valid update and the like. When the link is questionable she hits the go button.

 

[cyrusfox]

I had extended family work for Microsoft, I got a couple Windows 10 installs and office that came with a USB for install(As well as the product key). I thought it odd but it is the modern CD/DVD. Scammers are getting better at imitation.