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Beware of Scam Email Impersonating HKCERT with Malware Attachment

 

The Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT), managed by the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC), today (25 January 2013) alerted businesses and members of the public of a scam email impersonating HKCERT with malware attachment sent by the email address: notice@hkpc.org.

Mr S C Leung, Senior Consultant of HKPC, said, “HKCERT has never sent alert emails on behalf of ‘notice@hkcert.org’. Our official email address is hkcert@hkcert.org. We do not attach any patches or executable files in any alert emails.”

“In our alert emails, we will only provide links of our security bulletins at the HKCERT website, which is protected by SSL. Computer users can verify the digital certificate by double clicking the ‘pad lock’ of the website. Our alert emails are PGP signed. Users can find our PGP key on https://www.hkcert.org/pgp-key,” he added.

Anyone who has come across scam emails impersonating HKCERT should not open the emails, and immediately report to HKCERT at tel: (852) 8105 6060 or email: hkcert@hkcert.org.

For more details about the scam email, please go to https://www.hkcert.org/my_url/en/blog/13012501. For further enquiries, please contact S C Leung, Senior Consultant, HKCERT, at tel: (852) 2788 5420 or email: scleung@hkpc.org.

For other media enquiries, please contact Felix Chan at tel. (852) 2788 5036 or email: felixchan@hkpc.org.

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Mr Jonathan Ho
General Manager
Corporate Communications
Tel: (852) 2788 6390
Fax: (852) 2788 5056
Email: jonathanho@hkpc.org
Website: www.hkpc.org


25 January 2013