‘Storm Worm’ Trojan Spreads Rapidly Worldwide
The Trojan, named “Storm Worm” was sent out in millions of spam messages over the weekend. It started to spread on Friday as the real storms engulfed Europe. The spam email claimed to have latest news, with executable file. Some of the attachments have names such as “Full Story.exe” or “Full Video.exe”. ZDNet has more.
Over the weekend there were six subsequent waves of the attack, with each e-mail attempting to lure users into downloading an executable by promising a topical news story. There were e-mails that purported to carry news of an as-yet-unconfirmed missile test by the Chinese against one of its weather satellites, and e-mails reporting that Fidel Castro had died.
Each new wave of e-mails carried different versions of the Trojan horse, according to F-Secure. Each version also contained the capability to be updated, in an attempt to stay ahead of antivirus vendors.
A sample email caught by Symantec:
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