Virus attacks PC of fans of Football Fantasy games

According to British security firm Sophos, the XF97 / Yagnuul.A variant is hidden behind Excel spreadsheet files that gamers interested in the Premier League still use to track the progress of the team.

Spreadsheet tracking score of the team.( Photo: Sophos )

Yagnuul.A infiltrates spreadsheets with the .xls extension, can even edit data in the victim's system. " This virus is divided into two halves - one affects the Excel file in the machine, the other automatically" releases "the file related to the football tournament to the hard drive, " Graham Cluley, security advisor of Sophos firm ( English, explain. " People will only think that they are reusing a harmless spreadsheet of someone else, but after that, the virus is preparing for a big exploit ."

However, Yagnuula.A has a low risk of spread because many security vendors have provided software to prevent it.

Fantasy Football is a very popular game in offices, including Vietnam. This game is for football lovers and enthusiasts, especially the Premier League. It facilitates participants to team up according to their own calculations and accumulate points based on the actual ability of the players they choose. Players will have the opportunity to test their knowledge of football and become a true leader, assessing their ability to use people with limited budget.

Last week, Sophos also warned of a Trojans distributed via spam, pretending to be a file about the 2006 World Cup - the world football championship that will take place in Germany on June 9.

TN