Another campaign of MiMail worms has been spammed onto the Internet this week, say security analysts, leading them to conclude that these phishing-style worms–which try to trick users into divulging financial information such as credit card account numbers–will continue unabated during 2004. MiMail.p, a worm that first appeared last week, was re-spammed by Russian attackers Wednesday, said officials at Kaspersky Labs, a Moscow-based security firm. Kaspersky, and others, including security intelligence firm iDefense, detected a mass mailing of a Trojan horse dubbed ‘small.cz,’ which in turn downloads the MiMail.p worm from a remote server and installs it on the compromised machine. Attackers have taken to using wide-scale spamming of e-mail messages with malicious file attachments as a way to spread their creations quickly, hoping to infect large numbers of systems before anti-virus companies can react with updated definition files. Full Story
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