A new worm is generating boatloads of spam traffic in an effort to lure users to an infected Website, researchers said yesterday.
According to a report issued yesterday by security firm MX Logic, the worm has already generated more than 8 million spam messages -- more than 85 percent of the worm traffic detected yesterday.
The spam messages, which use a variety of news-style come-ons such as "Obama withdraws from election" and "Paris Hilton found to be gay," lures readers to click on a Web link. That link takes them to a PornTube site, where the user is enticed to download an ActiveX malware component, MX Logic says.
The worm appears to be recruiting zombies for the Srizbi botnet, MX Logic says.
Tim Wilson, Site Editor, Dark Reading