Laughing Kitties are NOT Funny

Similar to other Storm Worm e-card variants the subject lines looks fairly innocuous in an attempt to get the recipient to open the message. Some subject lines that we have seen include:

"Someone is thinking of you! Open your ecard!"

"Have you seen this hilarious greeting?"

"Someone Just sent you an ecard!"

"You have one new ecard waiting!"

"This greeting's for you!"

The body text of the message contains text such as:

"You have been sent the Laughing Kitty kard"

"Click here to view your laughing kitty card online."

"Preview your Kitty card online. It is so funny!"

The message contains a link where the user will be prompted to download a file called "superlaugh.exe" which contains Storm malware code.

Rest assured that there is nothing funny about the laughing kitty.

Storm and its many variants have easily created the largest vector of attack since the Sober worm in 2005, and at this point has dwarfed it in botnet size, observed traffic volumes, and staying power.

Storm worm variants have been reported to have infected up to 50 million PCs worldwide. Thanks to its effective social engineering techniques and enormous botnet power at its disposal we expect it to continue to be a major player for some time to come continuing to send spam, additional Storm malware, DDoS attacks, and more!