http://news.techworld.com/security/3222479/fast-spreading-p2p-worm-targets-usb-drives/ By John E. Dunn Techworld 04 May 10 A crafty new P2P worm appears to be spreading quickly among users of a range of popular file-sharing programs. So far the countries affected by the worm variant BitDefender calls Palevo.DP - Romania, Mongolia or Indonesia . suggest that the worm is being driven by factors specific to those countries. However, the file-sharing and IM services affected, said to include LimeWire, Ares, BearShare, iMesh, Shareza, Kazaa, DC++, and eMule, are wirdely used around the world by a mainly young audience, so the warning for users outside these countries is clear. The worm lures victims using a link embedded in a spam IM message, which leads to what appears to be an image file but is actually the malicious payload. From that point on, the malware burrows into the host by installing a number of files that compromise the Windows XP firewall. By this point the criminals have control over the system and can open backdoors to install further malware or capture passwords entered using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Tue May 04 2010 - 22:22:53 PDT
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