So now phishers are pretending to be FreeDOS emails. That's pretty targeted phishing (aka "spear phishing" where attackers customize the email to be very specific to the recipient).
Thanks for sharing. I haven't seen this, but I'll watch for it now. On Thu, Nov 2, 2023, 4:39 AM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi all, > I only wanted to tell you that I had a "FreeDOS" phishing attack yesterday. > > The mail I got arrived at my n...@mnet-online.de account, with subject: > > *Re: [Freedos-devel] mode.com <http://mode.com>* > sender:* m...@planet.com.pk <m...@planet.com.pk>* > Text: > > *Hi There,* > *Please see the documentation contained in the url followed below.* > > *Hyperlink: ONE WAY LINK* > > *Enjoy a great daytime!* > > *__________________________________________* > *Freedos-devel mailing list* > *Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>* > > > > > The ONE WAY LINK leads to: > h ttps://theorganicgardeners.co ./....... (rest not written for security > reasons) > > *Please do not click on this link!* > > *After clicking on the link nothing seemed to happen, but I assume that a > download started.* > > > > Just for info. > As I still work on the latest help I was not really astonished about this > mail although mode.com is already done. > I hope I could stop the download early enough on my Android phone. > The virus scanner on phone found nothing. Lets see... > > > Would be nice to hear if somebody else got this mail too. > Interesting thing is that I usually get mails from the USERS forum and > some other FD programmers and people that I know on this account only. > In case that you get strange mails from me, please inform me via this mail > account. > > Thanks > > W. Spiegl / Fritz Mueller > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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