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Thursday, August 30, 2007

I went to Singapore, and came back with a Worm

...an MSN Worm, that is. While I was in Singapore, a bunch of people emailed me about something they'd been sent via IM. I didn't really get much chance to follow it up while there, but it's all wrapped up now in a neat little bow. Behold the Singworm, in all its wormy glory.

Using files from Stration and a bunch of other places, its sole purpose in life is to spam by the boatload, attempt to steal data and make you cry.


There's not a huge spread on this so far, but it's not the most pleasant thing to get on your computer and coverage over at Virustotal was very hit and miss for all of the files involved.

Full writeup at Spywareguide.

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