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Trojan Website Launches 19 Forms of Malware

Tim Gray writes over on internetnews.com:

Security outfit PandaLabs said today a sophisticated "chain" attack, perpetrated through the SpamNet.A Trojan, is at work. The Trojan was discovered on a Web page hosted on a server in the United States but with a domain registered from Moscow.

PandaLabs Director Luis Corrons said the attacks are highly complex and can infect a system with up to 19 different forms of malware. The goal of the coordinated strikes is to send out junk mail. So far, it has compiled more than 3 million e-mail addresses worldwide.

"This attack is far more elaborate than usual," Corrons said in a statement. "Users of TruPrevent Technologies have been protected from the outset, but this is one of the most complex organized attacks that we have ever witnessed at PandaLabs."

PandaLabs said it has contacted the companies that host the files and Web pages that are the main part of this organized attack.

posted by Fergie @ 8/13/2005 10:41:00 AM