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 Message 628 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 I think .IMG files are cdrom burn files. 
 30 Nov 21 20:42:31 
 
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RealName: Wilfred van Velzen 2:280/464
 AA> I received a msg from DHL today..
 AA> ..informing me of a package to be delivered:
 AA> https://susepaste.org/38043260
 AA> I don't think I ever encountered a .IMG attachment before. Isn't that
something for Apple systems?
 AA> But I sent the file to Virustotal:
 AA> https://susepaste.org/252272
 AA> So, some kind of attempt was made to fool me.

I think .IMG files are cdrom burn files. Windows can open them by default (I
suspect), so users can be tricked into opening them,  and "execute" the
malicious content...
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