Latest Storm barrage offers site memberships
New tactic provides logins to special-interest sites.
The 'Storm' attack has changed tactic yet again, with the latest set of spams providing login details to a wide
selection of sites covering various interests. Once visited, the sites try to trick victims into downloading the
latest version of the trojans used to infect more systems and add them to the growing zombie network.
The spammed mails pose as welcome messages from a diverse range of sites, including dating, gambling, job hunting,
humour, food and drink, pets, music, software and photography. Addressing a 'new member', they provide a set of
login details and a link to a site identified only by IP address. Visiting the site brings up a message claiming
that a 'login applet' is required to enter, and downloading and running the applet leads to infection on
unprotected systems.
Details and screenshots of the latest wave, along with a list of known subjects, are on the F-Secure blog
here.
22 August 2007
Tags:
f-secure, malware, social engineering, storm, trojan.
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