Four-year-old Neeris worm copies Conficker's attack strategies
An old, but little-known worm has copied some of the infection strategies of Conficker, the worm that raised a ruckus last week, Microsoft Corp. security researchers said late Friday.
Neeris, which harks back to May 2005, is now exploiting the same Windows bug that Conficker put to good use, and it is spreading through flash drives, another Conficker characteristic, said Ziv Mador and Aaron Putnam, researchers at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
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An old, but little-known worm has copied some of the infection strategies of Conficker, the worm that raised a ruckus last week, Microsoft Corp. security researchers said late Friday.
Neeris, which harks back to May 2005, is now exploiting the same Windows bug that Conficker put to good use, and it is spreading through flash drives, another Conficker characteristic, said Ziv Mador and Aaron Putnam, researchers at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131139&source=NLT_SEC
