New Bagle virus declares cyber war
IT security experts have warned that a newly intercepted mutant of the infamous mass-mailing Bagle worm, dubbed Bagle.bb, has begun to spread rapidly across the internet.
Over one million email infections were reported within a few hours of the virus being discovered in the wild on Friday morning. The peak infection rate was between 8am and 9am, when virus infection rates trebled from the hour previously, according to email security company BlackSpider Technologies.
This latest Bagle variant, a mass-mailing worm containing its own SMTP engine, comes packed with PeX with the attachment in the executable of a name, McAfee's Avert antivirus team warned.
