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Morto: RDP worm of death?

30
Aug
2011

Over the last few days we have seen some media buzz about a worm called Morto. Morto is an old-fashioned internet worm, which targets Windows workstations and servers by exploiting poorly-chosen weak passwords to spread via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections (port 3389). It’s possible if you had a large number of infected computers within […]

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Windows Remote Desktop worm “Morto” spreading

28
Aug
2011

We don’t see that many internet worms these days. It’s mostly just bots and trojans. But we just found a new internet worm, and it’s spreading in the wild. The worm is called Morto and it infects Windows workstations and servers. It uses a new spreading vector that we haven’t seen before: RDP. RDP stands […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

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