Friday, January 20, 2006

Security Alert: New Trojan Use Sex As A Weapon


A newly discovered mass mailing trojan is quietly spreading on the 'net. Anti-virus and security firms has dubbed this threat as W32/Nyxem-D (also known as "Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi" or "W32/Generic.worm!p2p"). The subject line of emails containing this trojan can either be blank or any of the following:


*Hot Movie*
A Great Video
Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg
eBook.pdf
F***** Kama Sutra pics
Fw:
Fw: DSC-00465.jpg
Fw: Funny :)
Fw: Picturs
Fw: Real show
Fw: SeX.mpg
Fw: Sexy
Fwd: Crazy illegal Sex!
Fwd: image.jpg
Fwd: Photo
give me a kiss
Hello
Miss Lebanon 2006
My photos
Part 1 of 6 Video clipe
Re:
Re: Sex Video
School girl fantasies gone bad
The Best Videoclip Ever
the file
Word file
You Must View This Videoclip!

The body of the message may be any of the following:

Note: forwarded message attached.
Hot XXX Yahoo Groups
Fuckin Kama Sutra pics
ready to be FUCKED ;)
Note: forwarded message attached.
forwarded message attached.
VIDEOS! FREE! (US$ 0,00)
i attached the details. Thank you.
forwarded message
----- forwarded message -----
i just any one see my photos. It's Free :)

This clearly targets users who are easily swayed by online pornography and is using the social engineering tactics that was used by the Melissa virus and the "I Love You" trojan.

So update your anti-virus and never open unsolicited emails EVER!

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