Google Nukes Santy Worm, But Threat Remains
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A decision by Google Inc. to block certain search queries has helped thwart the spread of the Santy worm, but the public release of the worm&#39;s source code could lead to new attacks, security experts warned on Wednesday.
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The Santy worm with variants continues spreading on the Internet taking advantage of search engines, including Google, AOL, Yahoo to identify exploitable Web pages.
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A new, more dangerous variant of the Santy.e virus appeared over the holiday weekend. The malware uses search engines to locate vulnerable Web sites, which it defaces.
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Flooded for 12 hours At least three DNS root servers, including one maintained by the US Department of Defense, were flooded with data for about 12 hours in an attack that was notable more for its audacity than any noticeable degradation of internet traffic.â¦
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Google said it was blocking searches generated by a new worm, Santy.A, which were being used to find and infect vulnerable computers on the Internet.
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Also: Windows worm travels with Tetris [News.com Extra]
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News.com reports that a web worm named Santy is utilizing Google to help it spread to web bulletin boards using the PHP scripting language.
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Moving beyond Google, variants of the Santy worm are now spreading on the Internet riding on other search engines such as AOL and Yahoo to identify exploitable Webpages.
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The Santy worm, which appeared just before the Christmas holiday and uses search engines to spread, appears to be morphing into dangerous variants, virus experts warned Tuesday.
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Also: Hackers rig Google to deliver malware. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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A study by Google's team of anti-malware researchers finds that Web sites running Microsoft's IIS Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicious code as Web sites hosted by other servers.
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InfoWorld - Google's Orkut social networking site appeared to have been hit by a relatively harmless worm, but one that demonstrated the continuing vulnerability of Web applications.
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Code that exploits a "critical" Windows flaw has been posted on the Net, opening the door for a worm to be created.
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Web users are just recovering from the recently discovered Santy worm, which defaced a large number of phpBB based bulletin boards.
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Google have fixed a phishing vulnerability that was discovered by Netcraft on Wednesday. Google notified Netcraft that they had closed the vulnerability today at 06:30 BST, making this less-than-two-days response
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Search engine's actions should halt the worm's spread, antivirus vendors say.
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At least one new variant of a worm spread rapidly from Asia and Europe to US computers, filling up people&#39;s email accounts, but otherwise causing little apparent damage.