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Hackers Dupe Users with Bogus US-Iran War Spam

A weekend spam run tried to dupe recipients into downloading the infamous "Storm Trojan" by attaching files that posed as fake missile-strike videos.

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

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A weekend spam run tried to dupe recipients into downloading the infamous "Storm Trojan" by attaching files that posed as videos of a bogus missile strike by the U.S. against Iran, antivirus vendors said Monday.

The unsolicited e-mail, which arrives with provocative subject lines that include "Missle [sic] Strike: The USA kills more then [sic] 20000 Iranian citizens," "USA Declares War on Iran," and "USA Just Have Started World War III," include attached executable files such as video.exe and readme.exe, said Symantec.

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