Distributing spam with the theme of US-Iran war

Taking advantage of the tension in relations between the United States and Iran, from the weekends, hackers have triggered the spam wave bringing topics of war between the two sides.

Warning of security companies on April 9, the spams were bundled with a trojan called "Storm Trojan", hidden in a video of a non-Iranian American scene with a rocket.

The main headlines of new spam are: " Missle [sic] Strike: The USA kills more then [sic] 20000 Iranian citizens " (American missiles killed 20,000 Iranians), " USA Declares War on Iran "(America declared war on Iran), and" USA Just Have Started World War III "(America just started the third world war).

Distributing spam with the theme of US-Iran war Picture 1 The above package of spams is an executable file called video.exe and readme.exe, which is actually an improved version of Trojan.Peacomm and W32.Mixor, which is responsible for preventing detection of these tools. antivirus tool.

According to information from MessageLabs, the Peacomm worm is also called Zhelatin, which is the most widely spread malware within the last 24 hours (up to April 9), accounting for 32% of the total number of malicious code distributed around the world.

On April 9, security vendors such as F-Secure, Fortinet, Kaspersky and Sophos upgraded the antivirus engine that detected and killed Peacomm worm.