Bizjournals.com has reported on their website that a new e-mail virus is spreading. The virus has been given a name and it’s called Storm Trojan.

This virus arrives in an email greeting card which disguises itself that it came from a friend or a relative of the user.

“Since the Storm Trojan relies on a person to click on a link rather than open an attachment, it makes tracking it more difficult,” said the CEO of Pau Spam, Hoala Greevy.

He added, “The trend for assaults like these is a heavy payload of e-mail based attacks during the first four to five days, after which it then subsides. The goal of attacks like these is to compromise a vast number of computers as quickly as possible, at which point they can be used collectively as a zombie army to spend spam and phishing schemes.”

Source: Bizjournals