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PostPosted: 01/11/08 - 12:37    Post subject: Sexy Christmas spam helps Storm worm Reply with quote
A combination of the long Christmas holiday and some clever, sexy Christmas-themed spam emails helped criminals behind the Storm worm more than double their network of infected PCs, security experts say.

On the day before Christmas Storm sent off a flurry of email that invited victims to visit a Christmas-themed strip show on websites such as Merrychristmasdude.com. Victims who downloaded the strip show found their PCs attacked by malicious software.

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