Law, PR firms targeted

The FBI warned Tuesday of an increase in targeted phishing emails containing malicious attachments or links that are being sent to law and public relations firms. If executed, the malicious payload used in the attack attempts to download and execute the file ‘srhost.exe' from the domain ‘http://d.ueopen.com,' the agency said in an alert. Any network traffic associated with the domain ‘ueopen.com' should indicate a network is compromised. — AM

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