An email was forwarded to me that came from a security MSP trying to stir up business with someone at the company I work at. Their quasi-scareware email was funny, but a horrible way for us to take seriously. Only thing missing was a sentence asking for bitcoin.
I remember several years ago, companies were scanning their web server logs and doing DNS look-ups to find out what companies visited their website. Then the Spam and cold call of sales would begin. That tactic finally died off……mostly. The below email was not sent to our company from a DNS look-up scrape (I know, as our external IP’s at work can barely can tell you what state we are in), it was pure spam. Probably someone going through Linkedin and such finding contacts.
Ah, remembering the good ole days, when the scareware looked like an actual alert: