Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them. That use of the word “Myrtus” — which can [...]

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Researchers are reporting a new worm in the wild that overwrites master boot records (MBRs) of all available drives with its own data, making the data stored on a user’s computer inaccessible. Restoring the corrupted data is complicated, requiring specialized software or a third-party service provider, the researchers say. Win32/Zimuse A and Win32/Zimuse B has [...]

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On Wednesday, the ShadowServer Foundation took the wraps off a revamped statistics page, showing how far the three main variants of Conficker have spread and the degree to which the world’s networks are infected. More than 12,000 networks, as represented by their autonomous system numbers (ASNs), show signs of infection by Conficker. The ShadowServer Foundation [...]

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      Name Worm.MSH.Skowor.A   Type Worm     Author sk0r/Czybik     Written in PowerShell     Description I was looking for PowerShell based malware and eventually found the POC Skowor worm. The only worm written in this language. It attempts to propagate via the Kazaa P2P network by putting a copy of [...]

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A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet. The worm, according to XS4ALL, targets jailbroken iPhones whose owners have carelessly failed to change the default password. In addition to connecting to a Lithuanian master command channel, it also changes the [...]

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