[pchelpers] News:Warezov worm fiends target Skype

Dial M for Malware
By John Leyden
Published Wednesday 28th February 2007 16:39 GMT

The authors of the prolific Warezov worm are targeting users of Skype.

Warezov variants first cropped up in September 2006 and spread in the
attachments of email messages posing as security fixes. Instead of
arriving via an email attachment, the latest variant of the worm spreads
using a bogus Skype chat message asking users to click on a link, which
points to a hacker-controlled website hosting malicious codes.

The plausibility of the attack is increased because infected messages
likely come from a target's list of known contacts, though the abrupt
dialogue it generates might trigger a few alarm bells.

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/28/warezov_skype_im_worm/
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