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Storm worm e-mail says US attacked Iran
By Robert Vamosi
Thursday, July 10 2008 11:01 AM URL: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62043637,00.htm Recent e-mail messages stating that the United States has already attacked Iran and, in some cases, also offering links to a video purportedly from a soldier, are not to be believed, according to Websense. The security vendor said in an advisory Wednesday that it has linked the provocative e-mail messages to the Storm worm. Storm got its name because it first took advantage of a huge winter storm in Northern Europe in early 2007. Since then, it has used a variety of social engineering tricks, including the use of political themes, to get unsuspecting users to open its malicious payload. This time Storm is offering form.exe and iran_occupation.exe as executable payloads. Acording to Dancho Danchev over at ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet, the latest iteration of Storm appears to be using the following domains:
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