The spoofed CNN and MSNBC messages from last week have altered a bit, taking on a more generic approach.

The subject of the message is still: BREAKING NEWS.

Michael has been tracking these botnets for a while, his work is available here: http://www.vivtek.com/projects/despammed/stormspam.html.

Like the others, this first stage is a downloader, still readching out to 66.199.240.138 to get the rest of the goodies.  Unlike the previous waves, the first executable is named install.exe instead of adobe_flash.exe.  So there's a little something different to search for in your proxy logs.

-KL