European Football: cyber criminals will hit the fans

Kaspersky Lab has launched rather worrying linked to the imminent European Football an alarm that will take place in France. Email made with graphics reminiscent of the official materials, such as the UEFA EURO 2016 logo and those of sponsors, have been sent to the fans in order to convince them to participate in a false lottery associated to the Europeans in order to get hold of their information personal.

Email addresses and text used often vary, but the essence is always the same: the user's contact was selected randomly from numerous email addresses from an official lottery and to receive the prize, you must respond to the email by sending information personal.

Kaspersky has rivenuto also some advertising spam messages, with which you invite the fans to buy a commemorative coin of the Europeans for 2 Euro.

"We expect an increase in spam related to the Europeans as we will approach the beginning of the event," write the Kaspersky technical in this blog. "This type of fraudulent spam can be the most serious threat ever to the fans. And the criminals hardly be content lottery false, but will begin to submit various types of e-mails that offer the chance to win tickets to the matches , as was the case for the World Cup in Brazil. the amount of spam may be strongest in France, or in the country hosting the event. "