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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:41:38 -0500
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Subject: MEDIA: SpamHaus target of another worm
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"Spammers unleash e-mail worm
Tue 2 December, 2003 17:28
By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-spam organisations are the target of a new
Internet worm outbreak that tries to knock them offline with a crippling
data barrage, computer security experts say.
Virus experts believe the worm, W32/Mimail-L, is the work of a vengeful
spam e-mail peddler bent on paralysing organisations that try to deal
with spam, the torrents of get-rich-quick schemes and body-enhancement
deals that clog in-boxes daily.
"It's the third Mimail variation to come after us, except this one is
trying to do more," said Steve Linford, founder of The Spamhaus Project,
a British-based group that singles out spammers. Spamhaus was hit by
Mimail late on Monday.
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In a new twist, a follow-up e-mail is sent to the infected user stating
that an order for a CD containing images of child pornography will be
delivered to their postal address.
To stop the order, the e-mail advises, they should respond to what
appears to be an e-mail address for billing complaints, but which is
actually an e-mail for one of the eight targets."
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