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Fear of war exploited in an email scam Posted by Jusu @ 21:31 GMT

A large amount of malicious e-mail has been sent with subjects suggesting a missile strike on civilian targets in Iran:

   "USA Just Have Started World War III"
   "Missle Strike: The USA kills more then 20000 Iranian citizens"
   "Israel Just Have Started World War III"
   "USA Missile Strike: Iran War just have started"

A malicious executable with "video.exe", "movie.exe", et cetera is attached.

The files are detected at the moment with update 2007-04-08_02 as:
Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.cq.