Name ILOVEYOU Additional Names Love Bug or Love Letter for you Type of Malware Worm Location – Country of Origin Philippines Date of initial activity 2000 Associated Groups Onel de Guzman Or Lto3 Motivation Stealing Passwords Attack Vectors Email Targeted System Microsoft Windows 95, 98, or NT 4.0.
Overview
ILOVEYOU is a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line “ILOVEYOU” and the attachment “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs
Targets
Regular Users
Tools/ Techniques Used
ILOVEYOU relied on the scripting engine system setting (.vbs files) being enabled and took advantage of a feature in Windows that hid file extensions by default, which malware authors would use as an exploit.
Impact / Significant Attacks
The outbreak was later estimated to have caused US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide and estimated to cost US$10–15 billion to remove the worm. It was estimated that 10% of Internet-connected computers in the world had been affected.
References
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