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Storm Worm - New Waves of variants continue to emerge

Users should continue to be cautious and not select any attachments in email from untrusted sources, as continued new waves and iterations of the Storm Worm are spammed out in large scale attacks. 

New German version - GEZ_Rechnung.pdf.exe
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001093

Storm Worm changes theme to Love related topics
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001092

QUOTE: This evening a new wave of the Stormy worm has been widely spammed. The subjects used in the e-mails have now changed from news-related events to love-related topics as you can see from the screenshot and the list of subjects below.

Storm Worm starts to use Rootkit Techniques
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001089

Storm Worm more Variants emerge
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001088

Storm Worm becomes the Largest Trojan horse attack in months