Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Mikko of F-Secure’s blog post on 13th January 2009 said that more than 5,000 unique IPs in Malaysia are infected with the Downadup worm and that:
A very large part of that traffic is coming from corporate networks, through firewalls, proxies, and NAT routers. Meaning that one unique IP address that we see could very well be 2,000 infected workstations in real life.
As of now, the payload is not yet activated – so it’s a very scary preposition. Even if the creators did not intend to activate it, someone else might.
It’s all part of almost 10 million infected machines worldwide, which could make it one of the world’s biggest ever botnets.
Specific tool with heuristics for Downadup worm variants
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/beta/f-downadup.zip
Source
f-secure.com blog
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
The BBC reported on 15th Dec 2008 that hackers broke into a computer system that monitors logging in the Brazilian state of Para, then issued fake permits so loggers could cut down far more timber than environmental officials were prepared to allow.
These hackers were employed by logging and charcoal companies.
Greenpeace estimates that up to 1.7m cubic metres of illegal timber have been felled as a result.
The companies behind the hackers are now being sued for a billion dollars, the estimated value of the illegally felled timber.
More than 200 people are now under investigation for their roles in the scam.
There could be more cases, as the same computer system is also used in two other Brazilian states.
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Reported to Cybersecurity Malaysia [formerly known as NISER], that is.
About 2,000 in 2007, 2,123 in 2008.
Mostly about hack threats, fraud & DOS. Others are problems like files lost or corrupted by viruses.
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
UPDATE 22 Jan 2009
Get the specific scanning and disinfecting tool at F-Secure’s site.
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UPDATE 19 January 2009
This number has been revised to 8.9 million, and some are saying the actual number could be far higher and increasing fast.
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Conficker aka Downadup aka Kido is a highly successful Windows malware which spreads through low security networks, thumbdrives & PCs that lack the latest security updates.
This is a growing threat to users.
It was first discovered in October 2008.
Microsoft has released a patch (MS08-067), but it has not prevented the worm to infect possibly much more than 3.5 million machines!
Users are also advised to have up to date antivirus.
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