The poet in me had to giggle. With the arrival of Hanukkah, and soon to follow Christmas, a lot of folks are in a festive mood. That brings out all kinds of behaviour including, the negaverse furry toothed hacker set.
From GCN:
“The Storm Worm developers notoriously release variants around holidays that prey on people’s vulnerabilities to open festive greeting cards,†said Sam Masiello, director of threat management at Denver-based MX Logic. “We consider the Storm Worm variants that hit on the Fourth of July and Halloween as a precursor for another variant this holiday season.â€
Internet shoppers spend an estimated $733 million on the Monday following Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the online Christmas shopping season. With this increased online activity it could be easier for suspicious e-mail to get under our radar and for an unwanted piece of code to get into our operating systems.
Masiello said he had not seen any examples of malicious code so far this season, but that “sending an e-card for the holidays makes sense.â€
And therein lies the rub.
[tags]Storm Worm, Holiday Social Engineering, Malware[/tags]