The FORWARD project blog » worm http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward blogging on emerging and future threats Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:09:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Twitter worm strikes again http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/twitter-worm-strikes-again/ http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/twitter-worm-strikes-again/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:22:56 +0000 zarras http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/?p=135 Almost a week ago since its first release, a new worm hit the twitter again. The first attack happened during Easter when twitter was hit by powerful, self-replicating attacks that caused people to flood the micro-blogging site with tens of thousands of messages simply by viewing booby trapped user profiles.

The second worm, which began spreading on Friday ( 6 days after first worm ), referenced Twitter users with a large number of followers (such as @oprah, Oprah Winfrey, and @aplus, Ashton Kutcher). A day later, on Saturday, two more worms appeared, featuring philosophical musings and the word “womp”. The second worm of the day screwed with infected profiles, changing the title of the profile to “Mikey and the Mysterious Treqz”, as explained in a blog post by F-Secure.

The creator of said worms is Mikey Mooney, again! Mikey is 17 years old and claimed responsibility for releasing the first worm, citing boredom. According to Mikey the latest variant aimed to prove that Twitter did not fix the cross site scripting flaw that supposedly was taken care of , according to ZDNet. After releasing the first worm Mikey had landed a job as a web applications developer at exqSoft Solutions. Despite this, Mikey’s latest actions show that outfronting exploits to the community, albeit in a “brute” manner, is still amongst his interests.

]]> http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/twitter-worm-strikes-again/feed/ 2 The day has come! http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/the-day-has-come/ http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/the-day-has-come/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:04:49 +0000 Spyros Ligouras http://blogs.ict-forward.eu/forward/?p=100 Today, April 1 2009 is the alleged Doomsday of the Conficker/Downadup worm activation. Conficker has lately been under the spotlight of many well known tech blogs and even news websites garnering lots of attention. Even Conficker fanpages have been created in popular social networking sites. Now that it’s here disappointment might strike the masses as reportedly “Conficker has activated. So far nothing has actually happened.” Still there’s plenty of time ahead, and since not all of the worm’s behavior is known there might be a surprise ahead for us.

The people at F-Secure have uploaded a presentation about Conficker on Youtube. Follow the links below to watch it.

Case Conficker – Part 1

Case Conficker – Part 2

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