Antivirus firm f-secure reports a hostile bot (bot farm?) uses Skype’s client API to send potentially dangerous messages to unsuspecting users.   

We have two reports of people receiving links to a Warezov-infected file via .

Now, some older Warezov variants have used other Instant Messaging client in a similar fashion, but not Skype.

The messages looked like this:

We detect the binary at that download location as Warezov.ly.

 

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