New Storm Variant Claiming New Earthquake in China

Starting yesterday (June 18th) we began seeing evidence of a new Storm Worm variant claiming news of a new Earthquake in China. 
Some of the subject lines associated with these messages include:

2008 Olympic Games are under the threat
A new powerful disaster in China
A new deadly catastrophe in China
China is paralyzed by new earthquake
China's most deadly earthquake
Chinese people are horrified by new earthquake
Countless victims of earthquake in China
Deadly catastrophe in Chinese capital
Death toll in China exceeds 1000000
Death toll in China is growing
Earth tremors in China is going on
Recent earthquake in china took a heavy toll
Recent china earthquake kills million
Terrible earthquake devastated Beijing
The capital of China were collapsed by earthquake
The most powerful quake hits China       
Toll mounts in China earthquake
Unprecedented earthquake in China

This is a pretty typical tactic for Storm: ride on the wave of current events as a social engineering lure to get users to click on links in emails.  This variant is primarily targeting the Chinese earthquakes, but there is also a mention of the Beijing Olympics as well stating that the Olympics will be "under the threat." 

If a user clicks the link within one of these emails, they are not immediately infected with Storm.  They will be directed to a web site (all of the ones that we have seen so far have a .cn TLD) that looks like this:


It is important to note that this is not a real video player, but clicking the player will launch a file named beijing.exe which will infect your PC.

Volume of this variant is pretty low.  We are currently seeing on the order of about 900 per hour in our Threat Operations Center.  Expect to see similar stories of this nature threatening the safety of the Olympics as well as its participants and visitors as the event gets closer.