Storm Worm caused 'waves' in cyberspace

On January 19, virus programmers in Europe began to trigger a computer virus 'global storm' on a global scale. The goal is to have thousands of computers with quite special attacks, that is, just as the natural storm of weather is also raging in Europe. This information was confirmed with Reuteur by F-Secure's chief data security researcher.

F-Secure has named this dangerous virus ' Storm Worm '. The worm was sent to hundreds of thousands of email addresses with the title '230 people died when the storm hit Europe'.

Online "thieves" are now taking advantage of the weather element to spread the virus

Attachments in incoming mail are a type of malware installed on the computer system for the purpose of vandalism.

According to Mikko Hypponen, head of research at data security firm F-Secure, ' What makes this attack different is that it happened at the right time '. In fact, as of yesterday, 27 people in northern Europe were killed by heavy rain and high winds, along with many houses and buildings destroyed (AFP).

Hypponen said thousands of computers worldwide, mostly personal computers, were infected with the virus.

He said most users will find it difficult to detect malware, trojans, create backdoors on computers, pave the way for hackers to steal data or control computers to broadcast spam.

Therefore, people should pay attention not to open emails sent with the above content, and quickly update their security program.

Thu Trang