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The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase)

Posted by timothy on from the 5-percent-is-plenty dept.

MrZeebo writes "According to this story at Canada.com, the FBI, along with other authorities, have traced the origin of the Sobig worm. The quick timeline: Apparently, an earlier version of the worm installed a backdoor on a home computer in British Columbia. The creator of the worm used this compromised computer to create a Usenet account with Easynews.com in Phoenix, using a stolen credit card. The worm spread from Usenet, and contained the IP addresses of 20 computers to contact on Friday, and to download an unknown program from those computers. Officials were able to take 19 of these computers offline before the mass-download. However, the 20th computer stayed online, and many copies of the worm were able to get the rogue program. Those that did were merely redirected to a porn site, no damage done. However, now infected computers will continue to try and connect to the other 19 every Friday and Sunday until the worm expires on Sept. 10th." Reader muldoonaz points out this brief Reuters story about the investigation, too.

16 of 500 comments (clear)

  1. GAY NIGGERS OF AMERICA! by Staos · · Score: -1, Troll

    YEAH

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  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    cocksucks

  3. I Love You by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is old news fellas. Slashdot is just recycled crap anymore.

  4. YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HOLY SHIT YOU FAIL!

    1. Re:YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Keep it up. Your work here is silently appreciated by the majority of people who read at -1.

  5. Re:Another day, another worm by wasabii · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think MS is to blaim. But not because they left a hole, in fact, they didn't with SoBig. SoBig is a simple executable attachment. What they did however was put no effort into making it hard for these programs to be launched! Look at any unix mailer, does it have an "Open" button to launch a downloaded program? Mozilla? No. You have to go out of your way to save a file to disk, mark it executable, and run it. Windows was designed to make it easy to spread virus, until MS fixes that, yes, they are at fault.

  6. Re:hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i think it involves a size 12 butt-plug given to him by his uncle Larry, Christmas 1987.

  7. Re:hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    but what's the origin of CmdrTaco's anal-sex fetish?
    dude, have you ever stuck it up a girl's pooper? it's bliss.

  8. Viruses - fucktard by DrSkwid · · Score: -1, Troll

    fucktard is my word of the day

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  9. Re:PUTTING USA TO IT'S KNEES!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ya right al-qaeda will take yeras for another attack.

    You see these announcements on al-jazeera that they have some new huge attack that will "break the back of the Americans". Stop talking and just do it. I'm sick of waiting. I want to wake up and see a giant mushroom cloud over manhattan. Then I'll go score a shitload heroin and nod out and die before the radiation kills me. Ahhh, ya, that will be a happy death knowing the fascist Americans have been destroyed.

    America blows so bad. It's the biggest fascist killer of all time. The nazis only killed maybe 20 million people total. Do you know how many people have died thanks to America? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than 20 million. America is the biggest fascist killer of history.Sure the people inside America live nice, that way they don't stop the fascist murder and overthrow the nazi-fascists that run America, but outside America its just death death death.

  10. USA should nuke some examples. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The USA puts up with a lot of crap from jealous idiots. It takes them a long time to respond.

    On balance, the world is better off with the USA, rather than not.

    I for one, would like to see some worthless places (and there are plenty of them) nuked, just to shut up some people.

    The world has plenty of people, and too few places like the USA where, by and large, the people don't care about much, until you get in their face.

    Word to the wise - shit in your own yard all you want, but don't "wake the sleeping giant", if you know what's good for your crappy little idiological point of view.

  11. Re:I Have To Rant Here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    not like your racist or anything?

  12. Re:I Have To Rant Here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Our problem at my campus is south africans. They are worse than indians because they are amazingly arrogant, like they invented computers or something.

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  13. To-do for microsoft by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Troll
    To Microsoft:
    Subject: To-do list for your products:

    • Out of the box, warn users when they attempt to execute an attachment, especially if its an executable. Turn of vb scripting in all products, it can only be turned on manually, or through an "are you sure" dialog box. Advanced scriptable functions - eg access to the address book and the ability to send mail need additional user activation.
    • NetBIOS: loose it. They can enable it themselves.
    • Other ports/network access requests: Your OS does not need to access the internet by default, it does not need to automatically update, dllhost&svchost do not need to access the internet, turn it all off, if the user wants it they can turn it on.
    • Fire everyone in the marketing department. They must all go, they all serve no purpose, footballers are more useful to society than Microsoft marketing department staff.
    • slashes go forward, adjust your products accordingly
    • Please extend and embrace the following technologies and free support with your major OS's: firewalls, anti-virus, tetris. In exchange you can take out these technologies to save money: paint-brush, freecell
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  14. Re:The porn site moneymaking scheme? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    stileproject.com?

  15. Stupid Canadians you would think they know better! by ratfynk · · Score: 0, Troll

    First they don't even care if they leave Windows vulnerable, then they screw up our power grid. What next they might even stop buying our junky software anymore. Time to invade, this time they won't have enough Iroquios to stop us like in 1812! Take no prisoners.

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