A huge Spam spate that makes an attempt to swindle recipients into running a file attachment, which is claimed to take control their PCs, has already broken records, stated by security companies recently.
As said by researchers at Postini Inc., the spam operation is the largest and biggest in the past twelve months, and over three times the amount of the two biggest and largest in of late memory: a couple of spats in December and January.
Adam Swidler, senior manager of solutions marketing at Postini,
We’re seeing 50 to 60 times the normal volume of spam.
Coming up with subject headings purporting Worm Alert!, Worm Detected, Spyware Detected!, Virus Activity Detected!, the spam is claimed to be consisted with a ZIP file attachment disguising as a patch essential to defend against the fake attack. The ZIP file, which is password-secured — the password is comprised in the message to further trick recipients — in fact consists of a variant of the “Storm Trojan” worm, which deploys a rootkit to hide itself, renders security software inoperative, pilfers confidential info from the computer and integrates it to a bot army of compromised PCs.
Swidler was quoted as saying, Irony, it seems, isn’t lost on the attackers.
This is really a self-fulfilling prophecy. by warning users about a worm attack to get them to click on a worm.
