Hackers Spam 'happy New Year' Worm

[sjmike]

Just a heads up for everyone, there is a nasty virus out there and that is sent as an email attachment. Don't open any attachments from emails you don't recognize.

A rootkit-cloaked worm is being heavily spammed to users as an attachment to "Happy New Year!" messages, a security researcher warned Friday.

The new worm, dubbed "Tibs" by Kaspersky Lab but pegged as a "Nuwar" variant by Trend Micro, comes disguised as a file attachment named "postcard.exe," said Ken Dunham, director of VeriSign iDefense's rapid response team, in an e-mail. Users who launch the executable will infect their PCs.

With antivirus signature updates still thin and over 160 servers spamming the new worm, the threat is significant, added Dunham. "The period of greatest risk is through the New Year's holiday, when antivirus protection is the lowest for this new threat and users are most apt to click on a 'New Year's' related message," he said. "Everyone should be on guard for e-mails and other content potentially harboring malicious code during the holiday period."

[sacha]

Thanks Mike I'll watch it !

[dmegametal#1]

thank Mike for the heads up..i get a bunch of junk mail!!

[metmum]

Thanks for the warning.

[Judge B]

Oukie doukie. Just updated my AntiVir.