Computer Active, 22nd August 2007, "Storm Trojan gets second wind"

Bradley Anstis, product management director for security company Marshal, said: "We are seeing significant volumes of 'confirmation spam' hitting inboxes. "

Storm first appeared in January 2007 and quickly proved successful in fooling people into using the links. Marshal said current emails are the latest attempt by the criminals behind this trojan, which has previously used current affairs headlines and over the summer, e-cards, to give the spam legitimacy.

"These criminals are clever and highly adaptive. This outbreak is the latest in a string of underhanded social engineering tactics used by the same individuals responsible for the Storm Trojan and designed to fool unsuspecting email users into infecting themselves and propagate this botnet," said Anstis.

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