'Turkey' worm looks for Solaris Telnet flaw
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(InfoWorld) - A new worm targeting a flaw in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris 10 OS delivers crude artsy payloads, including a drawing of a turkey in ASCII text. The use of an ASCII drawing by a hacker is "a bit old school," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos PLC. The worm -- called Unix/Froot-A or Wanuk -- takes advantage of a zero-day flaw that was patched by Sun three days after exploit code was published last month. The vulnerability lies within the Telnet daemon, a process that runs in the background and waits for another Telnet client to connect, which can allow a hacker to log in without a password. An attacker could eventually gain complete control over the machine. The worm scans port 23 to see if Telnet is running, then sends data to exploit the vulnerability, Cluley said. Infected computers then scan for more vulnerable machines, he said. The drawings -- some of which are more offensive than the turkey -- can appear on the monitors of other machines connected to the infected machine, Cluley said. Sophos hasn't heard of any companies being affected. Users of Solaris are advised to apply the patch and disable Telnet, Cluley said. Â
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A new variant of the MyDoom worm that exploits an unpatched flaw in Microsoftâs Internet Explorer browser has emerged to threaten small business and home users in particular, security experts warned this week.
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Do-gooder worm attempts to fix holes exploited by the earlier Santy infection--but could end up a pain.
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InfoWorld - A new worm targeting a flaw in Sun Microsystems Inc.&#39;s Solaris 10 OS delivers crude artsy payloads, including a drawing of a turkey in ASCII text.
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InfoWorld - Skype users are under attack from a&#160;new worm&#160;that spreads through the peer-to-peer Internet phone application&#39;s&#160;chat feature.
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Sophisticated computer worm is setting up a botnet that may be hard to beat.
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A new variant of the so-called Zafi worm surfaced Tuesday, disguised to appear as a Christmas greeting. Multiple antivirus researchers reported the emergence of the latest iteration of Zafi, classified as
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Skype warns users password-stealing Trojan horse is making the rounds, disguised as a Skype security plug-in
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At least one new variant of a worm spread rapidly from Asia and Europe to U.S. computers Friday morning, filling up people's e-mail accounts, but otherwise causing little apparent damage.
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com December 14, 2004, 12:26 PM PT. A new variant of the so-called Zafi worm surfaced Tuesday, disguised to appear as a Christmas greeting.
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Worm is traveling by e-mail, but does not appear to cause much damage.
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The worm, dubbed Santy, exploits a vulnerability in third-party web servers that use phpBB bulletin board software, a popular package used to create web forums, and has been propagating at a rapid pace, infecting some 38,000 sites in a matter of hours.
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A new computer worm emerged on  Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a  security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a  full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
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The flaw exploited by the most recent versions of the worm such as Santy.C or Santy.E is more general than the original, and can occur anywhere a site designer has left the door open for the inclusion of arbitrary files into PHP scripts, reports IDG News
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At least one new variant of a worm spread rapidly from Asia and Europe to US computers, filling up people&#39;s email accounts, but otherwise causing little apparent damage.
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A variant of the Zafi worm, Zafi.d, is doing the rounds disguised as a Christmas message. This worm arrives via email and through peer-to-peer networks bearing the message &quot;Happy Hollydays&quot; and the subject
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HELSINKI: Internet security experts warned last Tuesday of a new virulent e-mail worm particularly successful in infecting computers as it is disguised as a multilingual electronic Christmas card.