January’s Storm Worm targets blogs!
Back in January we blogged about the Small.DAM Trojan which affected users at the time Europe was raged with terrible weather conditions.
This week it has emerged the Trojan has stepped up a gear according to ZDNet:
“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.”
What it can do is use a vulnerable system which has been infected with it and then adds a malicious link on a blog comment or in a forum post.
We will certainly watch this on our forum and blog. And update this post as soon as we get more information. In the meantime discuss it here.
there seems to be a blizzard of Emails from infected systems some of which appear to me Mainframes ? where is the security i wonder ??