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Stories · 5

  1. Asus.com Compromised With Exploit Code

    It · Security · · posted by kdawson · from the be-careful-out-there dept. · 117 comments
    Juha-Matti Laurio writes in with news that the Web site of ASUSTeK Computer (asus.com) has been compromised to spread exploit code. The original report from Kaspersky Lab claimed that the compromise lead to code exploiting the recently patched Microsoft Windows Animated Cursor (.ANI) 0-day vulnerability, but sans.org found no evidence of this. Apparently a malicious iframe was added to one of the machines in asus.com's DNS round-robin.

  2. New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability

    It · Worms · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the happy-new-years-windows-users dept. · 360 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "After less than a four days after original mailing list posting there are reports about a new Instant Messaging worm exploiting unpatched Windows Metafile vulnerability. This worm is using MSN to spread, reports Viruslist.com."

  3. No Defense Against Windows Rootkits?

    It · Security · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the bend-over-and-take-it dept. · 510 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "Spyware bad guys (and also phishing people) started using rootkits technology to stay hidden in a system. The problem is that at the moment the technology to defend a Windows system from these things is very poor. In fact antivirus companies have just started adding basic anti-rootkits technology. So the problem is serious, and well outlined by this question: Is the closed source code of Windows preventing us from actively defending our systems?"

  4. Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected

    Tech · Mozilla · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the caught-with-their-pants-down dept. · 592 comments
    Magnus writes "Korean distributions of Mozilla and Thunderbird for Linux were infected with Virus.Linux.RST.b. This virus searches for executable ELF files in the current and /bin directories and infects them. It also contains a backdoor, which downloads scripts from another site, and executes them, using a standard shell."

  5. Targeted Worm Hits Kazaa's Network

    It · Security · · posted by timothy · from the worms-churn-the-earth dept. · 300 comments
    sh0rtie writes: "Kaspersky Labs and the BBC are reporting that the Fasttrack network that Kazaa uses has been hit by its first targeted worm virus dubbed 'Benjamin.' Is this a clever RIAA creation or that of a mischievous virus writer? I guess we will never know, but the result is that it seems to be bringing unsuspecting users machines to a crawl with full hard drives and clogging up the Fasttrack network with massive amounts of traffic bringing more headaches for ISPs and sysadmins worldwide."