Tue, Jul 22 2008 16:53 Don

New malicious Storm Worm campaign: American currency

Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered a new Storm Worm campaign around the theme of the U.S. credit crunch. We have detected a series of email subject lines used to entice users into downloading a Trojan. Here are a few examples of the subjects we have seen in this campaign:

  • The new currency is coming
  • Amero arrives
  • Amero currency Union is now the reality
  • The AMERO currency replacing the Dollar

We have previously seen the group behind the infamous Storm Worm use the tried and tested U.S. Independence Day theme and capitalize on global attention around fake World War III news.

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