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 Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: New trojan claims to be WGA notification |
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Blogged here by me:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=838
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| A new piece of very nasty malware has been recently discovered on spyware help forums, first here and again here. The file name is wgavn.exe and it creates a service named "Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification", as seen in this line in the HijackThis log. |
There's more in the link.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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More info here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/30/HNwormmsantipiracy_1.html
It's an AIM worm -- good write up with info from Sophos in the article. Excerpt:
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The malware has been classified as a worm and spreads through AOL's Instant Messenger program, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, a security vendor.
Sophos is calling it W32.Cuebot-K, a new variation in the Cuebot family of malware. The worm has a range of malicious functions. After it's installed, the worm immediately tries to connect to two Web sites, a sign it may try to download other bad programs on the machine.
Cuebot-K can disable other software, shut off the Windows firewall, download new malicious programs, perform basic DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks, scan local files and spawn a command prompt, Sophos said. |
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