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Hackers are capitalising on World Cup Fever, says security company Sophos, and a new macro virus hidden inside an Excel formula posing as a quick way to create a fantasy football league has been discovered.
Once run, Yagnuul-A copies itself into every open Excel worksheet on the target computer and creates files of the form 'LuuNGayDD-MM-YYYYORIG.xls', where DD-MM-YYYY is today's date and ORIG is the name of an legitimate file on the system. This file contains a Fantasy Football like form, containing predictions for matches in the Barclays Premiership. So anyone finding files with names starting LuunGay can be pretty sure they are the result of the Yagnuul-A virus. McAfee considers the threat as low, given the media attention the virus has already received. |