Storm Worm Variant Hits on Easter Sunday

This past Easter Sunday another variant of what is commonly known as the “Storm Worm” (originally discovered in mid January, 2007) started circulating around the Internet. This worm originally got its name because one of its original iterations used a subject line related to a large storm that was hitting Europe at the time; a certainly not unheard of, yet an effective social engineering tactic.
This new variant appears to be attempting to play on social tensions between the United States and Iran with regards to Iran’s developing nuclear weapons program sending itself using email subject lines like “USA Just Have Started World War III”, “Missle Strike: The USA kills more then 20000 Iranian citizens”, and “USA Missile Strike: Iran War just have started.” The email contains a binary executable attachment with fairly innocuous names like “video.exe”, “click me.exe”, and “readme.exe.” Read Full Article