The problem with this attack is that it is so hard to defend against for the average user.
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What hackers are trying to find is, if they can make a bad Excel file or a bad Word file, does the program crash and allow them to compromise the system.Johannes Ullrich
We carefully checked this patch and are 100 percent sure that it is not malicious. The patch is, of course, not as carefully tested as an official patch. But we feel it is worth the risk. We know it blocks all exploit attempts we are aware of.
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Writing a cross-platform worm is difficult because it limits you to functions that are available on both operating systems. You have to also code the virus in assembly to make it work without relying on any OS-specific function.
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Yesterday we got a lot of reports of the code being used, but they turned out to be false positives. I haven't seen anything really used in the wild.
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will connect to a control server to ask for instructions. It scans network neighborhoods and tries to infect them, as well.
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This laptop will infect your systems from the inside.
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