Cyber Criminals Sending Phishing Mails Pretending to be from Russian Government Domain

From ehackingnews.com

The administration of RSNet (Russian State Network) recommended not to open letters from unknown senders, not to click on links from emails of legitimate users of the RSNet, including from the administration of the RSNet, and also not to open attachment files contained in such emails.

According to Andrey Kovtun, the head of the mail threat protection group at Kaspersky Lab, scammers set up phishing mailings allegedly from a domain gov.ru. He explained that the attackers use a fake sender’s address webmaster@gov.ru.

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