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AutoRun. Reloaded

13

Jun

2013

Recent months have produced little of interest among worms written in Java and script languages such as JavaScript and VBScript. The main reason behind this was the limited proficiency of the virus writers, whose creations were anything but remarkable. However, a couple of malware samples grabbed our attention; their complexity is testimony to the fact […]

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Printer Madness: W32.Printlove Video

03

Jul

2012

Recently we have received several customer issues about garbage being printed on their network printers. During our investigation, we came across a new worm that causes the garbage print jobs. Symantec detects this worm as W32.Printlove. W32.Printlove uses the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE 2010-2729) discovered in 2010 to spread […]

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New worm targeting weak passwords on Remote Desktop connections (port 3389)

29

Aug

2011

We’ve had reports of a new worm in the wild and that generates increased RDP traffic for our users on port 3389. Although the overall numbers of computers reporting detections are low in comparison to more established malware families, the traffic it generates is noticeable. The worm is detected as Worm:Win32/Morto.A and you can see […]

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