[pchelpers] News:'Storm' Trojan horse taps into YouTube fever

Hackers have changed their tactics again
Gregg Keizer

August 27, 2007  (Computerworld) -- Hackers bent on spreading the Storm 
Trojan horse have changed tactics again and are now trying to dupe users 
into clicking on links posing as YouTube videos, security vendors warn.

Storm, a.k.a. Peacomm and Nuwar, is now spreading via e-mail that 
includes a link that appears to be to a YouTube video, said Johannes 
Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute, on the Internet 
Storm Center's blog this weekend. "The link looks like a link to 
YouTube, but actually points to a 'numeric' URL like old Storm 
variants," said Ullrich.

Placing the mouse cursor atop the bogus YouTube link will show a numeric 
IP address rather than the expected www.youtube.com, a good indicator of 
a scam attempt.

More here:
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