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Symantec Corp. researchers said that the "Storm Trojan," aka "Peacomm," is
now spreading via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger.
An alert to some Symantec customers pegged the new infection vector as
"insidious" because the message -- such as the cryptic "LOL " -- and the
included URL can be dynamically updated by the attacker. Even worse,
according to Alfred Huger, senior director of Symantec's security response
team, "it injects a message and URL only into already-open windows. It's not
just some random message that pops up, but it appears only to people [you are]
already talking to. That makes the approach very effective."
see the original article here
IM USERS: CAVEAT EMPTOR! :knock:
now spreading via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger.
An alert to some Symantec customers pegged the new infection vector as
"insidious" because the message -- such as the cryptic "LOL " -- and the
included URL can be dynamically updated by the attacker. Even worse,
according to Alfred Huger, senior director of Symantec's security response
team, "it injects a message and URL only into already-open windows. It's not
just some random message that pops up, but it appears only to people [you are]
already talking to. That makes the approach very effective."
see the original article here
IM USERS: CAVEAT EMPTOR! :knock: