Another nasty one doing the rounds.
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“The World Cup continues to generate opportunities for malware creators to spread their work, experts warned yesterday.
The latest batch of headaches comes in the form of a new worm that arrives via email that appears to be from the CNN news story. The email entices users to open it with subject lines such as “Naked World Cup game set,” “Soccer fans killed five teens,” and “Crazy soccer fans.”
Each email variant claims that the attached file is an interesting photo of the events, and encourages the recipient to open it. When run, the file tries to disable security software on the computer and spreads itself to other email addresses.” More» |
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