Comments on: “Cisco router, vulnerability CVE-2018-0296” Email Scam

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 21:47:46 +0000

I received this email a few days ago and opened it on my iPad as it was ‘to me’, ‘from me’ and and ‘I’ was the subject. After reading it I deleted. When I went to my iPhone’s email I noticed it was there too in the trash. I never received it on my Mac computer. Is it possible a iPad could have a
Trojan horse and if so, how would I go about deleting it? Please Advise.

By: Rick Parker

Rick Parker — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:14:53 +0000

Very thorough article. Fortunately, these messages are being picked up by my email provider’s spam filter, and I don’t have the trojan

By: Manny

Manny — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:42:58 +0000

Hello, Daniel!

I also received that email today, there are no links on the email. I received in my junk mail folder.

I am sending you the information below the Localhost:

# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

Thanks in advance,

Manny

By: Daniel Sadakov

Daniel Sadakov — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:37:11 +0000

In reply to B-Run. Were there any links in the email?

By: B-Run

B-Run — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:07:19 +0000

I got this today in my junk folder using webmail instead of an email software client. I did open it in my safari browser. Did i get infected? How can i check on a mac?

By: arturas

arturas — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:50:10 +0000

Hi – i’ve tried all of the options and did not find anything too suspicious. Disabled one program in Startup which was called “Program” so this was probably the most tricky one.

as for the hosts this is what I found:
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

thanks for your help!

By: Shawn Davis

Shawn Davis — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:46:00 +0000

In reply to Daniel Sadakov. Ok thank you very much. I actually logged out of the account because I do to have any use for it anyway and I bought Lookout premium for my phone just In case.

By: Daniel Sadakov

Daniel Sadakov — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:45:29 +0000

In reply to Peter. From what you have wrote you are fine.

By: Daniel Sadakov

Daniel Sadakov — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:44:52 +0000

In reply to Emre. It is just a scam. Sometimes there are attachments that could be harmful.

By: Daniel Sadakov

Daniel Sadakov — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:43:40 +0000

In reply to Emre. Just delete the email. If you have, there isn't much you should do.