Hackers Use European Storm to Spread E-Mail Attack

posted by  mujtaba (19)  10 months ago (hungryhackers.blogspot.com)

A massive malware attack spread throughout the world Thursday and Friday by teasing e-mail recipients to open infected messages supposedly about European wind storms. The attackers use of the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe" was an effective way to lure careless computer users into opening mail infected with the "Storm Worm" virus."Storm Worm" is the name that seems to have stuck fo