New worm thinly disguised as CNN breaking news headlines

Virus researchers at Sophos have identified a new worm which poses as information on the latest news stories. Crowt-A(W32/Crowt-A) takes its subject lines, message content and attachment names from headlines gathered in real-time from the CNN website. As well as providing keylogging and backdoor functionality, W32/Crowt-A attempts to send itself by email to addresses found on the infected computer as if from other addresses on the infected computer. The email's subject lines, message content and attachment name are generated from headlines gathered real-time from the CNN website.