Email-Worm.Win32.Skowor.win32.b.a has been found in Russia. The worm is a German-speaking version of the email-worm. The authors website was taken down yesterday evening after the worm’s code was found to be buggy. In tests, the worm wasnt able to encrypt files, change passwords, display the warning message, or change the IE start page, or even change the user’s current user password.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/file-encryptor-moves-to-the-west/30138/