New Variant of Santy Worm Spreads
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Latest worm poses a risk to many Web sites using the PHP scripting language.
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com December 22, 2004, 4:00 AM PT. When the Santy.a worm started spreading on Tuesday, Mikko Hypponen knew he had a way to stop the worm in its tracks.
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Pune: Google Inc has announced that it has blocked Santy.A, the Web worm which had identified potential victims through its search and had spread among online bulletin boards using vulnerability in phpBB, an open-source software product managed by the
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Google acted quickly to block Santy.A, a worm that targeted the company&#39;s popular Internet search engine. Antivirus experts say this threat has passed, but predict that it may be just
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A new variant of the Bagle email worm is spreading rapidly across the internet today.
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A new version of the worm that spread from infected Microsoft Corp. Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers in June has been identified and is using instant messages (IMs) and infected Web sites in Russia, Uruguay and the U.S. to spread itself, according to one security company.
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A new family of worms which uses an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer is spreading widely across the net.
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On 20 December 2004, a fast-moving Internet worm called Santy began attacking Web servers using the popular Google search engine. The Santy worm exploits a security vulnerability in phpBB, an open-source bulletin
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Virus writers have grafted a network sniffer into the latest variant of the SDBot worm series.
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New variant offers holiday greetings before infecting your PC with a virus.
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(InfoWorld) - A new variant ofÂ the Stration worm, which has been plaguing Windows users for the past year, has made the jump from Skype to the ICQ and MSN Messenger networks. This latest variant popped up earlier this week, according to Chris Boyd, a researcher at FaceTime Communications, who blogs under the pseudonym "Paperghost." "They're using Skype as a jump off into other more established networks," Boyd said. "The infection will go looking for other instant messaging clients that are on the PC and then attempt to send the infection message that it initially sends through Skype through these other chat systems." For a computer to be infected, a user must first click on a link and then agree to download an executable file. In one sample provided by Boyd, the malicious link is listed below the instant message, "Check this out. Give me your opinion." Once installed, the worm will gradually start to send out messages to the victim's contacts, Boyd said. Instant message worms have spread from network-to-network in the past, but this is the first time Boyd has seen a worm jump from Skype to another network. "It's an odd system to make, because these guys have a foot in the door [in the Skype network]," he said. "You think they'd focus all their energies onto exploiting Skype." Stration is not widespread and is considered to be a low-risk infection, but it has been a tough worm to fight for some security vendors. Over the past year it has morphed into hundreds of variants, and antivirus companies have been having a hard time keeping track of its many iterations. Stration has also been called "Warezov" and "Stratio." Nobody knows who is behind the worm, but the domains that host the malicious code are registered through a Chinese Internet company, Boyd said. Â
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A new variant of the so-called Zafi worm surfaced Tuesday, disguised to appear as a Christmas greeting. Multiple antivirus researchers reported the emergence of the latest iteration of Zafi, classified as
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Ziff Davis - Over the Christmas weekend, security hackers taunt Microsoft's security efforts with a new Windows proof-of-concept exploit that takes advantage of several unpatched bugs. And a new version of the Santy worm targets PHP scripts.
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A new version of the Santy worm appeared over Christmas, and according to analysis done by some global security firms, may pose a broader threat than its ancestors.
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A new variant of the Internet worm MyDoom - Mydoom.Y - has anti-virus vendors puzzled. Not because they can&#39;t do anything about it but because it comes along with a description of itself.
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A new version of Santy worm has appeared over the weekend. Dubbed as Santy.e, it poses a broader threat than its ancestors, which used Google to spot vulnerable web bulletin boards, then defaced them.
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New version of mass-mailing worm, discovered Friday, tries to disable defenses on destination PCs.