Tsunami Computer Worm
AN EMAIL plea to help the victims of last month's Asian tsunami disaster
is being used by sicko worm writers to spread their latest virus. Media
friendly Sophos
reports on its website that the worm appears with the header "Tsunami donation!
Please help!" and invites recipients to open an attachment called "tsunami.exe".
When opened it forwards itself to everyone in the user's address book and then
initiates a denial-of-service attack against a German hacking website. Sophos
senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said that the virus shows hackers
stooping to a new low. So far the worm has not spread much.
Already some tsunami scam based on the Nigerian letter has been sent out, but everyone knew that they tend to release such a variant when anything new happens in the world.
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