New botnet resurrects Storm's Valentine's Day ruse
Spam trumpeting the power of love is nothing more than an old trick dressed up in new clothes, more evidence that the backers of the Waledec bot Trojan are the same bunch that hammered users last year with Storm, security companies are warning.
Multiple security vendors, including MX Logic Inc., Trend Micro Inc. and Panda Security, have issued alerts about new Valentine-themed spam campaigns that try to dupe users into installing the Waledec bot.
Subject lines for the spam, said Sam Masiello, vice president of information security at MX Logic, are "short and sweet," and include "Me and You," "In Your Arms" and "With all my love." Users who browse to the link embedded in the spam reach a site with a dozen hearts, any one of which will download an executable file when clicked.
