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"Dasher" Worm Brings Christmas Keylogger

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sneaking-in-through-the-chimney dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A worm called 'Dasher' is exploiting a flaw in Windows that Microsoft issued a patch for in October, dropping keyloggers on infected machines, according to F-Secure. The SANS Internet Storm Center warned earlier this week about the weird traffic generated by the first version of this worm, which apparently was crippled by programming errors. Washingtonpost.com has some information that indicates the worm appears to have originated in China. It appears from the Microsoft advisory that Dasher is a threat mainly to Windows 2000 users, although it could impact Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP users who aren't running SP2." Update: 12/17 17:20 GMT by Z : Fixed link to SANS center.

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  1. They do not need to bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can just go ask the NSA what is going on.

  2. Watch out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Fox News finds out some people are calling it a Holiday Keylogger, there could be hell to pay.

  3. Oh What Fun by MrNonchalant · · Score: 2, Funny

    A holiday keylogger called Dasher. Could we call whoever wrote this a scrooge? Howbout a grinch? The cuteness doesn't stop here folks!

  4. My answer to Key loggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I write some PERL using Vim

    Keylog THAT if you dare

  5. maybe it's santa! by cursion · · Score: 4, Funny
    maybe it's really from santa and his IT dept is testing out new ways of seeing who is naughty and nice and checking on what we really want. i mean, imagine getting about 6 billion emails and/or snail mails saying "i want this!".

    sing along now...
    "He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows what you're typing. ..."

    --
    remember when it was {of|for|by} the people?