E-mail-based worm puts VARs, vendors on alert

The rampant spreading of an e-mail-based worm attack this week shows that after a somewhat dormant period, widescale hacker threats are alive and well.

Variants of the “sober” e-mail worm have been arriving in millions of e-mail inboxes over the past several days. Many of them have been posing as fake messages from the CIA or FBI, warning recipients that their Internet addresses have been identified as having conducted illegal activities online. Clicking on the messages exposes the users’ computers to control by whomever sent the messages.
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