Category: Worms
Microsoft Statement Regarding Zotob Worm that Crashed CNN, ABC, NYT and Congress: “Low Threat for Customers”
Microsoft has today released a statement regarding the Zotob worm (also reported as Botzor, Botzor.exe, and, incorrectly, as Zobot and rbot.ebq or rbot.cbq), which crashed computer systems across the nation yesterday. The Zotob worm, which takes advantage of a flaw in the Windows Plug and Play system, has been blamed…
Breaking News! New Worm-rbot.cbq Brings Windows 2000 Computers Crashing to a Screeching Halt Across the U.S. (Zotob – not “Zobot” – Also Implicated)
Worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.ebq, Win.32.rbot.ebq, Zotob, Botzor.exe, or Zobot – whatever you call it, and whichever it is, it’s causing a whole lot of trouble across the United States.
Windows Worm of the Day Zotob Attacks Plug and Play (a/k/a Botzor.exe, but not “Zobot”)
[Breaking News! Tuesday, August 16th: Zotob May Be Responsible for Computer Crashes Across the U.S. Read Here] Today’s Windows worm, brought to you by the letters Plug and Play, is the worm Zotob. Zotob attacks a flaw in the Windows “Plug and Play” feature, and also is known by the…
Free Tool from Microsoft Removes Malicious Software, Recommended for All Windows Machines (KB890830)
Microsoft has this week released an updated version of its Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows (KB890830). This free tool is not a replacement for anti-virus, anti-spyware, or anti-spamware. Rather it is a separate, additional tool (and did I mention that it’s free?), offered by Microsoft, which seeks out and…
Doombot.A Delivers CommWarrior.B to Bluetooth Smartphones
While consumers, and indeed the online security industry, have typically not paid much mind to warnings of nasties being sent to or through a Bluetooh device, experts are warning that this needs to change. Case in point: the newly discovered Doombot.A, which carries with it CommWarrior.B, which sends itself out…
Grand Theft Auto Worm Hagbard.A Offers Hot Water, Not Hot Coffee
Security experts are reporting that a new worm called Hagbard.A is posing as a pirated version of the popular and now scandal-plagued game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Riding the wave of publicity which Rockstar Game’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has received in the past weeks due to the…
Are the Chinese Stealing U.S. Corporate Secrets Through Internet Worms?
Are the Chinese stealing U.S. corporate trade and other secrets through the use of computer worms and trojans? According to at least one security expert, the answer is “yes”. Joe Stewart, with U.S. security company Lurhq, claims that a new worm called “Myfip” is being used to steal U.S. corporate…
New Kirvo Trojan Worm Sidekick Targetting AOL AIM and MSN Instant Messenger
The Kirvo Trojan visits you via Instant Messenger, blazing a trail so that Spybot can then install itself on your system. And once you have a Spybot infestation, all bets are off.
New AIM Instant Messenger Worm Impersonates iTunes
The newest worm in the big apple known as the Internet is worm_opaniki.y, also known as Oscabot-L. What makes Opaniki.y unique is that it impersonates iTunes, by sending itself around disguised as “iTunes.exe”. Propogating itself across AOL’s Instant Messenger platform, AIM, Opaniki.y / Oscabot-L tricks unwary users into clicking on…
Lebreat “Breatle AntiVirus” Actually Double-Edged Worm for Windows
A new worm has hit the streets, and it’s a double-edged worm. The Lebreat worm, which is mailing itself around calling itself “Breatle AntiVirus” is both a network worm and a mass-email worm. It’s two, two, two worms in one. According to security firm F-Secure, once Lebreat (or “Breatle”, or…
Don’t Say That Aunty Didn’t Warn You – This Month’s Fake Microsoft Security Update MS05-039
Well, you can’t say that it wasn’t expected. Sure enough, after Tuesday’s release by Microsoft of its July Security Updates, along came the fake “Microsoft Security Update” that you were warned about, the very next day. Identifying itself, falsely of course, as “Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-039”, it claims to offer…
Crime Pays! Microsoft to Reward Sasser Informants
It turns out that crime does pay, after all. Informants, that is. Microsoft has announced that they will pay out a promised $250,000 USD reward to two informants who helped lead authorities to Sasser creator Sven Jaschan. The teenaged Jaschan was tried last week, and received a suspended sentence for…
Worldwide Trojan Attacks in Progress
Online security company MessageLabs is warning people that there has been a sudden sharp rise in Trojans assailing user inboxes, worldwide. In just one morning this week, MessageLabs says that they blocked 54,000 copies of new Downloader Trojans. The Download Trojans include Trojan horse programs Downloader.ABC and Downloader.XZ. The Trojan…
Sasser Suspect Scores Suspended Sentence
Sven Jaschan, the German teenager who created the Sasser worm, has now been convicted of creating Sasser, and has received a suspended sentence for his deeds, along with an order to perform community service. The twenty-one month suspended sentence is due in large part to the fact that Jaschan was…
Sasser Suspect Sven Speaks (and Confesses)
Sven Jaschan looks like, and by most accounts is, a typical teenager. That is, except for that small matter of bringing hundreds of thousands of computer systems around the world to a screeching halt – or at least a snail’s paced crawl – with his unleashing of the Sasser worm….
