February 13, 2008 (Computerworld) The Valentine’s Day campaign that the bot-building Storm Trojan horse has been running for weeks is running at such volume that even the FBI issued a warning yesterday.
“With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software,” the FBI said in an alert posted to the home page of its Web site yesterday. “The Storm Worm virus has capitalized on various holidays in the last year by sending millions of e-mails advertising an e-card link within the text of the spam e-mail. Valentine’s Day has been identified as the next target.”
Actually, the FBI was way behind the ball. For several weeks, security vendors have been predicting that Storm would again use tomorrow’s big day to dupe users into opening attachments or clicking links.
