Storm returned with 'pornography storm'

The security community warned the dangerous computer worm Storm over the weekend had returned to raging with a phishing campaign that provided pornography via new email.

Researchers from MX Logic Inc. and F-Secure have said that Storm's new spam attack is hard to block because this time hackers use up to 40 (subject) titles. different for junk emails.

" These emails are very different titles from the White House issue struck by lightning, Italy was excluded from the Euro 2008 finals until Nokia is preparing to launch new phone designs . " a research expert of F-Secure said.

F-Secure then provided a list of the titles used by the Storm worm during the spam attack this time online for security reference.

Storm returned with 'pornography storm' Picture 1 But no matter what the title is, all these emails contain links to a fake website that provides PornTube.com pornography. Security firm McAfee said the fake website is hosted on many different web servers. Most of them are legitimate servers hijacked by hackers.

Once the user clicks on the link attached to the email, there will be a pop-up window asking them to install an ActiveX Control to view the video on the page. The actual ActiveX Control is the new variant of the Storm worm.

The scale of this attack is also worth noting. " MX Logic Threat Operations Center statistics show that within a day this center received more than 8 million junk emails containing Storm worms. This number corresponds to 85% of all malicious email messages detected. in the day ".

Storm is a dangerous computer worm designed to kidnap a user's PC and turn it into a tool to help hackers organize attacks or distribute spam. Since its first discovery, security experts have yet to find a solution that can effectively destroy the worm. After a period of stealth it reappears with a new variant that is more dangerous and more dispersed.