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'Storm' Trojan horse may turn to hyping Hurricane Dean

Malware's makers love news, and Dean would take them on trip down Nostalgia Lane

The 8-month old Storm Trojan horse may soon come full circle and take up touting Hurricane Dean, the Category 5 storm that slammed into Mexico yesterday, security researchers said.

Storm, also known as Peacomm, started life in January as malware attached to messages that shilled fake news accounts of a massive series of wind storms that struck Europe. One of the first Storm-bearing messages dangled the subject head "230 dead as storm batters Europe" to tempt users into launching the file. Recipients who clicked on the attached executable were infected by the Trojan horse, which turned their systems into spam-spewing zombies.

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