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McAfee Avert Labs Blog - Nuwar moonlights as a blogger
Nuwar moonlights as a blogger
Thursday August 30, 2007 at 2:55 pm CST
Posted by Allysa Myers
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It used to be one our many mantras, back in the old days, that virus writers do not have QA departments. That is to say, virus infections can cause very odd, unintended consequences.
How many of you out there remember the Bugbear virus from 2002? It had a very odd side effect that it would send its attachments to network printers, causing them to spew tons of pages of apparent gibberish, as it printed out the contents of its executable attachment.
Nuwar is having a similarly strange effect lately, effectively posting itself to blogs, where people have set their blogs to be updated by email. Kind of a bonus spreading mechanism there, as this doesn’t seem to have been intentional.
At this point the social engineering doesn’t translate real well, as it’s really geared towards the email format. It should stick out pretty distinctly on a person’s blog. Of course the usual advice applies… don’t go clicking on strange links. kthx!!!
Source: Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks