A Tsunami Email Plea Is Really A Virus (citwire)
Report via My Way News (Reuters)
Shortly after the tsunami disaster suspicious emails started cropping up asking for donations.
Well now we have another email that poses as a plea for helping the tsunami victims that is a vehicle for spreading a computer virus. Web security firm Sophos confirms the virus report.
Shortly after the tsunami disaster suspicious emails started cropping up asking for donations.
Well now we have another email that poses as a plea for helping the tsunami victims that is a vehicle for spreading a computer virus. Web security firm Sophos confirms the virus report.
The worm appears with the subject line: "Tsunami donation! Please help!" and invites recipients to open an attachment called "tsunami.exe" -- which, if opened, will forward the virus to other Internet users.
It could also initiate a denial-of-service attack against a German hacking Web Site, Sophos said, in which the site's server would be bombarded with messages, putting it out of action.
"Duping innocent users into believing that they may be helping the tsunami disaster aid efforts shows hackers stooping to a new low," Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said in a statement.
It could also initiate a denial-of-service attack against a German hacking Web Site, Sophos said, in which the site's server would be bombarded with messages, putting it out of action.
"Duping innocent users into believing that they may be helping the tsunami disaster aid efforts shows hackers stooping to a new low," Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said in a statement.
Even most criminals and thiefs have some scruples, but the lowlife like the people that develope crud like this are devoid of all feelings beyond their own.
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