April Fool's Day is newest theme for Storm Worm

Of course, any 'event' of importance will be used to lure users into opening and clicking attachments. So educate your peers !!!

The miscreants behind the Storm Worm botnet have taken advantage of April Fools' day in a bid to infect more Windows PCs.

Security firms are warning users to avoid the temptation to click on April Fools' day emails that may redirect them to maliciously constructed websites.

The latest attempt to dupe more gullible users into getting their PCs infected kicked off on Monday with a spam campaign designed to trick recipients into visiting websites under the control of hackers containing executables with names such such as foolsday.exe, Kickme.exe or funny.exe.

So far the miscreants punting the scam haven't even bothered to include exploit code, net security firm F-secure notes. Potential marks are simply invited to download the malware, promoted via a spam mail campaign. (Source: TheRegister)

So whas the campaign succesful? I just had a look at the graphs from Shadowserver and it doesn't seem to be the case. At least for Tueday the first. But March was a very succesful month for botnet herders. I predict that there will be more attempts at using the Olympics as tactic this year.