YouTube Duped in Latest Storm Worm Attack

The hacker group known as “Storm Botnet” is tapping the popularity of online video to propagate an attack with the pesky Storm worm. The hackers sent barrages of e-mails out over the weekend, inviting people to watch a scandalous video of themselves on YouTube.Headlines like “OMG, what are you thinking,” offer storylines that read “this i [sic] not good. If this video gets to her husband your both dead. see for yourself.” Alternative subject lines read, “LMAO, your crazy man” and open up to text that alleges, “You can see your face right in the video. its all over the web dude. take a look, lol.”

The e-mail then offers up what appears to be a link to the clip. The link, of course, does not go to YouTube. It sends the victims to servers that download malicious apps.

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