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Old 02-28-2007, 08:53 PM   #1
jeraveike

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Default Be careful with links here:
A variant of

the Trojan horse attacks known as Storm Worm emerged Monday, targeting people who post blogs and notices to bulletin

boards.

Storm Worm emerged in January and raged across the globe in the form of e-mails with attachments that,

when opened, loaded malicious software onto victims' PCs, commandeering the machines so they could be used for

further attacks.

The new Storm Worm variant attacks the machines of unsuspecting users when they open an e-mail

attachment, click on a malicious e-mail link or visit a malicious site, said Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research

scientist at Secure Computing.

But the twist comes when these people later post blogs or bulletin board notices.

The software will insert into each of their postings a link to a malicious Web site, said Alperovitch, who rates the

threat as "high."

"We haven't seen the Web channel used before," he said. "In the past, we've seen malicious

links distributed to people in a user's address book and made to look like it's an instant message coming from

them."

The danger in this most recent case, he added, is that the user is actually posting a

legitimate blog or bulletin board notice, unaware that a malicious link has been slipped into the text of the

posting.
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