Storm Valentines run under way
Seasonal spam and malware barrage gets going.
The expected run of 'Storm' spams, pushing links to their latest line of malware disguised as Valentine's messages,
has begun, with many reports of spams appearing all over the world.
The Storm botnet controllers have got their timing back on track, after a previous
batch of Valentine messages were released early in January. The current run of spams follow the usual formula,
presenting anonymous messages of love and affection and linking to a website which attempts to download a malicious
file, in many cases rather unimaginatively titled 'valentine.exe'.
Some details and screenshots of the latest run are at F-Secure
here and at Trend Micro
here. The FBI has issued a warning about such
spams, here.
Of course, other spam operations are taking advantage of the occasion to send out targeted messages, and other current
events are also being used for malware and scam purposes - these include the upcoming tax deadline in Australia, as
detailed by Trend here.
12 February 2008
Tags:
botnet, malware, social engineering, spam, storm.
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