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Skype Targetted By Worm Writers |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
A type of worm initially spread via email attachements has reportedly been re-worked to spread as a Skype chat messsage.
According to reports, the Warezov worm initially appeared in in
September last year as an attachment to email messages that claimed
they were security fixes. Some earlier version have used other Instant
Messenger applications to spread, but now the worm has found itself
onto the Skype network and is being spread by posing as a bogus Skype
chat message.
The message reportedly urges the user to click on a link, which points
to a hacker-controlled website hosting malicious codes. The attack is
quite successful as the chat message appears to come from somebody in
your contact list.
However according to this report "the abrupt dialogue it generates might trigger a few alarm bells".
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