
Once downloaded the Trojan sniffs the computer for existing Internet Explorer vulnerabilities or to see if it can add botnets, said Oscar Marquez senior technology consultant APAC at Marshal’s TRACE team.
The campaign is currently active in Europe, US and APAC. “The attack first appeared this morning and already represents almost one percent of Marshal’s total spam count. It’s a high number we intercept, approximately one million emails a day," Marquez said.
Microsoft’s recent security update included a patch for the Storm worm,which appeared to help reduce its intensity but this is no longer the case, he added.
“The Storm worm has not blown itself out.”