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Subject: [ISN] Virus writers are picking up new Microsoft attack
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2010-07-23 9:09:47
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1007230409380.30694 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179564/Virus_writers_are_picking_up_new_Microsoft_attack
By Robert McMillan
IDG News Service
July 22, 2010
The Windows attack used by a recently discovered worm is being picked up
by other virus writers and will soon become much more widespread,
according to security vendor Eset.
Eset reported Thursday that two new families of malicious software have
popped up, both of which exploit a vulnerability in the way Windows
processes .link files, used to provide shortcuts to other files on the
system.
The vulnerability was first exploited by the Stuxnet worm, discovered on
computer systems in Iran last month. Highly sophisticated, Stuxnet
targets systems running Siemens industrial control system management
software. The worm steals SCADA (supervisory control and data
acquisition) project files from Siemens' computer systems.
Siemens issued a Security Update for its customers on Thursday, but
Microsoft has yet to patch the Windows bug that permits the worm to
spread.
[...]
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