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August 01, 2007

Unique Botnet Worm Discovered

Sophos is reporting that they discovered a new botnet worm that repackages itself pretty uniquely in order to spread and deceive users into starting it.

While the worm still contains the usual zombie functionality of a typical botnet in that it can spread via removable shared drives and network shares (via exploiting Microsoft vulnerabilities) and can turn an infected computer into a zombie machine, this new variant is different in that the bot can repackage itself into existing zipfiles with a random filename but with a file extension of .gif [many blank spaces].scr using an internal zip engine.

[A Bot Enhancement]

Posted in Tech News by #!/usr/bin/geek at 2007-08-01 02:52 ET (GMT-5)

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