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Bagles Busting Chops
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-03-06
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In another recent, yet delightful development, SophosLabs discovered a new flavor of bagle for your computer's consumption. The W32/Bagle-DO worm began making its way through computers, threatening lawsuits against everyone who gets the email.
With subject lines with statements like "Pay your debts before we come for you" or "Call your lawer immediately" or better yet "Lawsuit against you." Naturally, once the emails are reviewed, they command the person to open the attached file, called either, lawsuit.exe, explanation.exe or documents.exe. If the files are executed, the worm is installed and begins scanning emails to start the same process once again.
The worm chooses from a variety of messages to send, all claiming to be about different types of legal action. Messages include one that claims the recipient's company sent an unsolicited commercial fax without permission. Another claims the recipient's company conducted an unsatisfactory car service, which resulted in a fire.
"People who receive this viral email won't necessarily believe that it was intended for them or their company, of course, but they may wish to advise the apparent sender that they have sent the message to the wrong person. If anyone opens the attached file, however, they risk infecting their computer and passing on the pox to others," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "Internet users need to be more careful about what emails they trust, and which files they choose to open on their PC. Proper security like up-to-date anti-virus software is a must. With more malware being written than ever before, unwary computer users are risking putting their data at risk."
The email also tries to spread through P2P file sharing systems as nude pictures of actress Kate Beckinsale or erotic photographs of either Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. Intuition suggests these may be the most vicious ways to spread the virus.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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