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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0040 Storm Trojan re-emerges:

The Trojan horse that pumped up spam volumes in January is at it again, and is now spreading over instant messaging and engaging in attacks on rival malware. Researchers from Symantec Corporation said that the "Storm Trojan," aka "Peacomm," is now spreading via AOL Instant Messenger, 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, 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, which makes the approach VERY effective.

(ComputerWorld 12FEB07)

Last Modified: Saturday, 17-Feb-2007 07:34:26 EST