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No victims in Red Cross virus scam
Malicious program tries to steal credit cards, but not getting far.
Recipients of the Septer.Trojan receive this realistic-looking form soliciting
donations. The information is actually uploaded to a virus-writer's Web site.
By Bob Sullivan MSNBC
Oct. 22 — There’s a new malicious computer program designed to prey on people’s
generosity towards the American Red Cross. The program, called “Septer.Trojan,”
arrives as an e-mail and attempts to trick recipients into filling out a form with
credit card information. The Red Cross has warned Net users to delete any such an
e-mail solicitation, since the agency doesn’t ask for money that way. Meanwhile,
antivirus firms rate Septer.Trojan a low risk because it hasn’t spread quickly.
THE RED CROSS says there are no known victims of the Trojan
“We have not had any individual cases that have been reported to us,” said
Kelly Alexander, spokesperson for the Red Cross.
Septer.Trojan comes in the form of an executable file attached to an e-mail
message. Upon execution, the user is presented with a donation request form to fill
out. The e-mail appears to come from the American Red Cross, United Way and the
September 11th Fund. Once the form is complete, the personal and confidential
information on the form is uploaded to a non-Red Cross Web site, according to the Red
Cross.
Septer.Trojan is the second malicious program published in an effort to
capitalize on the Sept. 11 attack against the United States. In late September, a
virus named “Vote” — which offered recipients the chance to vote for “peace between
America and Islam” — made the rounds briefly. It also was a low risk and infected few
users.
Vincent Gullatto, senior director of research at McCafee Corp.’s antivirus lab,
said he didn’t think Internet users were likely to fall for such scams.
“I think perhaps earlier in the month closer to attack,” sympathetic Net users
might have been tricked by such an e-mail, Gullatto said. “But not now. As time has
gone on there’s been a lot of talk about cyberterrorism. People may be a little more
aware of things happening right now. ... I don’t think they would believe the Red
Cross would send out such an e-mail.”
The Red Cross says it is currently only accepting credit card donations on
its Web site and on a few partner Web sites:
www.amazon.com
www.aol.com
www.paypal.com
www.wellsfargo.com
www.yahoo.com
www.helping.org
www.libertyunites.org
www.1800flowers.com
http://www.msnbc.com/news/646075.asp?0na=23027C0-
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