Tham khảo tài liệu 'ethical hacking and countermeasures - phần 9', công nghệ thông tin, an ninh - bảo mật phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | M c EH Certified Ethical Hocker Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures Version 6 Module IX Viruses and Worms TM c E H News Certified Ethical Hacker FBI Warns of Valentine s Day E-Mail Virus Thursday February 14 2008 MX NEWS Happy Valentine s Day You ve got a computer virus IT managers around the world braced themselves Thursday for an expected onslaught of romantic e cards surreptitiously carrying the nastiest virus around the storm Worm. Once the user clicks on the e-mail link malware is downloaded to the Internet-connected device and causes it to become infected and part of the storm Worm botnet warns a public alert posted on the FBI s Web site Monday. Click here to visit s Cybersecurity Center. 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 says the FBI. Valentine s Day has been identified as the next target. Haven t heard of the storm Worm That s because it hasn t struck yet even though researchers first noticed it more than a year ago after it cropped up in e-mails showing photos of damage from European windstorms in January 2007. Since then it s steadily infected an estimated 10 million Windows-based PCs around the world all underthe command of unknown bot herders whoVe silently fashioned them into a zombie army or botnet a massive network of enslaved PCs awaiting the signal to launch a cyberattack. ADVERTISEMENT SIX DEGREES COULD CHANGE THE WORLD NOW AVAILABLE n IN HD ON DEMAND l l CHANNEL HD Source http Copyright by Ec-Council All Rights Reserved. Reproduction is Strictly Prohibited EC-Council I M c EH Certified Ethical Hacker Scenario Ricky a software professional with a reputed organization received a mail which seemed to have come from some charitable organization. The mail was having a .ppt attachment with name demo of our charity work . Just before leaving for his home he downloaded and played the attached .
