“Storm Worm,” one of the larger Trojan horse attacks in recent years, is baiting people with timely information about a deadly, real-life storm front, security researchers said Friday.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6151414.html?tag=nl.e589
Be careful out there everyone.
Hi marc57,
Just an example of the “hype all and everything”-mania of to-day. This worm was really a storm in a glass of water. Keeping the attention of sys admins where it should not be in the first place. A bit of a FUD storm. Other av venders tagged this one as “low risk”.
http://www.malwarehelp.org/news/article-5796.html
polonus
Theoretically it should be zero risk if some common sense were applied.
This is social engineering just to get the user to open the email, curiosity definitely kills the cat (curious user). Don’t open unsolicited, unexpected emails, much less open any attachments or click on links in said emails. Just plain Common Sense will protect you from this type of infection, certainly until a signature if added to any VPS.