February 27, 2006 PayPal Password-stealing Trojan Mass Mailed By Gregg Keizer Courtesy of Several million copies of a password-stealing were spammed to Internet users late last week, a security company said Monday, and workers returning to the office who open the attachment risk a computer kidnapping. U.K.-based BlackSpider Technologies said that it had already intercepted more than 3.2 million messages with an attached Trojan, and claimed that it took 52 hours for the first anti-virus vendor to issue a signature that detected and deleted the malware. , as Sophos dubbed it (Symantec named it "PWSteal.Tarno.s"), comes with the subject head of "Notification: Your Account Temporally Limited," and targets PayPal users. The associated e-mail claims that PayPal has detected unusual activity on the recipient's PayPal account. If the user opens the attached file, Clagger.h silently installs. Not only does Clagger.h set a so the attacker can later add more malicious code to the PC, but it lurks in the background and nabs usernames and passwords from any window or Web page with text strings ranging from "cash" and "bank" to "log" and "id." "This Trojan horse has been aggressively seeded, using spam technology, to distribute malicious code to as many vulnerable computers as possible, in the shortest amount of time," said Graham Cluley, a Sophos senior technology consultant, in a statement. Astute users will be waved off by a gaffe in the spam's subject heading. "A simple spelling mistake in the subject line should alert innocent recipients that this isn't a genuine message from PayPal," he added. In the message, the word "Temporarily" is misspelled as "Temporally," although its conceivable that the hacker was trying to tell users that their PayPal password was limited by . Or not. "People should always think carefully before running unsolicited code on their computer," Cluley advised. E-mail This Story Print This Story Get the latest Messaging news, product info, and trends every week.			Spyware And Adware Continue To Plague PCs FTC Smacks Spammer With $900K Fine IM: Real-Time Securrity Problems For Financial Services Bot Herders Ready Attack Against Message Forums Researchers Warn Of Coming Tax Scams Microsoft Vows To Keep Pressure On Phishers     Messaging Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Messaging Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed Editorial and vendor perspectives The Six Flavors Of Windows Vista Microsoft plans to release a full six-pack of Vista versions, one for every taste. Which Vista will be right for you? Hope is Not Enough When It Comes To Compliance Three Ways To Authenticate E-Mail And Stop Spam Wikis In The Workplace Review: Google Desktop 3 Vendors are now talking about how collaboration can be improved by integrating video with messaging applications. They're even talking about adding live TV to mobile phones. How far do you go before it becomes a bandwidth and business productivity drain? Video is a great idea     13% Video is fine but there needs to be size limits     25% It's never used for anything really productive     38% I draw the line at live TV     25% In search of messaging products? Check out our brand new Product Finder for a directory of groupware and collaboration tools, security products, archiving solutions, and more.