Twitter Invite Email Worm: Invitation Card.zip

by Jordan Yerman | June 18, 2009 at 02:17 pm

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If you get an email that claims to be a Twitter invite, and comes with an attachment called Invitation Card.zip (or anything similar), please, oh please do not open the attachment. It's a worm. Don't get pwned.

Invitation Card.zip is the name of the malicious attachment, and it is being identified as W32.Ackantta.B@mm, which was first discovered in an e-card virus attack in February. W32.Ackantta.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm that gathers email addresses from the compromised computer and spreads by copying itself to removable drives and shared folders.

It's an invitation, all right.. an invitation to getting punk'd.

(found via CNET)

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