CRIME FW: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/01/02

From: George Heuston (GeorgeH@private)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 09:57:03 PDT

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    Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/01/02
    
    September 30, CNET News- W32/Bugbear-A is spreading rapidly. Sophos has
    received several reports in a short space of time of users receiving an
    email-aware worm called W32/Bugbear-A. Sophos issued a virus identity (IDE)
    file for W32/Bugbear-A on 30th September 2002 and is recommending customers
    update their copies of Sophos Anti-Virus to protect against it.
    W32/Bugbear-A drops a randomly-named DLL file, which is related to logging
    keystrokes, in the Windows system folder. It can also terminate certain
    firewall and antivirus programs. Detection A virus identity file (IDE) which
    provides protection is available and will be incorporated into the November
    2002 (3.63) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. Source:
    http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bugbeara.html
    
    Virus: #1 Virus in USA: : PE_FUNLOVE.4099
    Source: http://wtc.trendmicro.com/wtc/wmap.html, Trend World Micro Virus
    Tracking Center [Infected Computers, North America, Past 24 hours, #1 in
    United States]
    
    Top 10 Target Ports
    80(http); 1433(ms-sql-s); 21(ftp); 103; 139(netbios-ssn); 6346(morpheus);
    67(bootps); 3389; 1080(socks); 4665;
    Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center
    
    
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