Description
LoveLetter (a.k.a. ILOVEYOU) is a Visual Basic script worm that spread around the world by email in May 2000 and caused billions of dollars in damage. It arrived as a love themed attachment that overwrote documents and media files with copies of itself and downloaded a password stealing component, and its success came from tricking users into opening files with hidden double extensions.
Stats
- First seen
- April 2022
- Last seen
- September 2026
Also known as
Loveletter
Alert name variants
| Alert Name |
|---|
| ByteCode-MSIL.Worm.LoveLetter |
| Email-MIME.Worm.LoveLetter |
| Image.Worm.LoveLetter |
| Script-WScript.Worm.LoveLetter |
| Unix.Worm.LoveLetter |
| VB:Trojan.Emeka.LoveLetter.849 |
| VBS.LoveLetter.D |
| VBS.LoveLetter.Z |
| Win32.Worm.VBS.LoveLetter.E |
| Win64.Backdoor.Loveletter |