An e-mail disguised as a message from Microsoft’s security team contains a dangerous Trojan horse called Xombe. Xombe, also known as Trojan.Xombe, Downloader-GJ and Troj/Dloader-L, was being distributed on Friday. It poses as a critical update for the Windows XP operating system. When executed, it attempts to download a malicious backdoor component from the Web. It appears to be an imitation of one of last year’s most successful worms, the mass-mailed Swen, which also masqueraded as a security warning from Microsoft. However, Xombe has yet to repeat the success of Swen. While the former failed to make the top 10 threats intercepted by e-mail security company MessageLabs on Monday morning, Swen was at No. 2, with some 7,000 instances captured in the past 24 hours. Full Story