Trojan Horse Lurks in World Cup e-Mail
Of course, this is not the first time this has happened -- in fact, it was about this time last year when we began to see this same phenomenon.
You cab sure that with the upcoming World Cup, we are going to see lots of creative angles used by crimeware authors (and plain-old counterfeiters) to try to exploit the upcoming World Cup games.
John Blau writes on InfoWorld:
German fans have been complaining for sometime about a bug in their underperforming national soccer team ahead of the World Cup soccer tournament, which begins next month in the country. Now they're having to worry about a bug of a different kind, a Trojan horse, which is masquerading in a downloadable tournament game plan.More here.
The Baden-Württemberg State Bureau of Criminal Investigation (LKA) warned on Wednesday of an e-mail with a link to a self-extracting Excel file that claims to contain the game plan for the soccer tournament. The German-language e-mail contains the message "Fussball Weltmeisterschaft 2006 in Deutschland" (2006 World Cup Soccer Tournament in Germany) and the link "googlebook.exe."
When clicked, the link will install a Trojan horse on users PCs, according to LKA.
The agency has informed Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and, because the Trojan horse appears to have originated from a server in the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as well.
posted by Fergie @ 5/04/2006 06:47:00 AM
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