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Watch out for the âstorm wormâ, a virus with many variants that wants to trick you into finding out more information about the big storm that raged across Europe killing at least 41 people.
Hundreds of thousands of malicious emails have been sent across the globe, according to Mikko Hypponen, the Chief Research Office at security firm F-Secure, with anyone opening up the email and clicking on the attachment at risk of becoming part of a âbotnetâ.
A botnet is a collection of computers under the secret control of hackers who not only search these computers for confidential data and email addresses, but use their collective power to send out spam emails and conduct denial of service attacks.
The âStorm Wormâ has a misleading subject line which reads â230 dead as storm batters Europeâ, according to Hypponen. He claims that "Trojan assaults of this scale are an unfortunate and increasingly common event. What is significant here though is the timely nature of this assault in relation to the European storm. Malware gangs are clearly using every technique and even tragedies like these to gain access to vulnerable machines."
Watch out for the âstorm wormâ, a virus with many variants that wants to trick you into finding out more information about the big storm that raged across Europe killing at least 41 people.
Hundreds of thousands of malicious emails have been sent across the globe, according to Mikko Hypponen, the Chief Research Office at security firm F-Secure, with anyone opening up the email and clicking on the attachment at risk of becoming part of a âbotnetâ.
A botnet is a collection of computers under the secret control of hackers who not only search these computers for confidential data and email addresses, but use their collective power to send out spam emails and conduct denial of service attacks.
The âStorm Wormâ has a misleading subject line which reads â230 dead as storm batters Europeâ, according to Hypponen. He claims that "Trojan assaults of this scale are an unfortunate and increasingly common event. What is significant here though is the timely nature of this assault in relation to the European storm. Malware gangs are clearly using every technique and even tragedies like these to gain access to vulnerable machines."
