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Yipe! Yipe! Yipe! Trojan Horse Targets Skype
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-03-23 13:58:37 1625
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By Joris Evers Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned on Thursday.
The attack is similar to threats that target instant-messaging applications. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with the text "Check up this" and a link to a malicious executable called "file_01.exe" on a Web site, Websense said in an alert. If the user runs the file, several other files are downloaded and run, it said.
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