I received an email from, Unity Technologies (unity-technologies@unity3d.com), with the following message.
Hello,
Your invoice [the invoice] is available and attached as a PDF.
Invoice Total Amount: 0.00 USD
Thank you for using Unity!
sincerely,
The Unity Team.
This is the message, and in it is a PDF attached. But I don’t remember any invoice. Is this message real or a hacking scam?
I’m guessing you’re subscribed for some of the new multiplayer stuff? Like Relay and/or Lobby?
This is new: https://discussions.unity.com/t/884845
I also got today the notification from google workspaces that it sees it as phishing:
When I open the PDF inside the browser it looks like a legit invoice for the position:
Total Storage
CLD-BLD-STO
Its phishing, I also got it
Be careful with PDFs you don’t trust. It’s easy to embed malicious code into them.
https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/resources/can-pdfs-contain-viruses.html
Linus Tech Tips got hacked a few months back by simply opening one.
Yup, use a virtual machine if you aren’t sure about the legitimacy of an email and you want to open the files linked.