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Merry Christmas, Nuwar Style

Monday, December 24, 2007 at 8:40am by Dmitry Gryaznov
Dmitry Gryaznov

With Christmas upon us, the bad guys behind Nuwar (a.k.a. Storm Worm) couldn’t miss the opportunity. Here is an example of an e-mail you may receive:

 

If you follow the link (please, don’t!), you’ll be greeted like this:

 

By this time, of course, a not adequately protected computer would already be infected by Nuwar through a mixture of exploits. And if that doesn’t work, Nuwar authors always leave a chance for a gullible user to click on the image and get infected by the downloaded executable.

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