{"id":552375,"date":"2007-05-26T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T09:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552375-bush-worm-dances-its-way-into-computers.html"},"modified":"2007-05-26T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T09:39:18","slug":"bush-worm-dances-its-way-into-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552375-bush-worm-dances-its-way-into-computers.html","title":{"rendered":"Bush worm dances its way into computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">A Worm named &#8216;Worm.Win32.VB.au\u2019 spreads with the help of messages written in Spanish, which says &#8216;mira esta animacion de bush\u2019, coming from known and unknown contacts. Translated to English, it reads as: &#8216;See this animation of Bush\u2019. After getting into a victim\u2019s computer, the worm quickly sends the malicious links to all contacts present.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cUsing fake and real stories about world political leaders is a tried and tested way of malware proliferation,\u201d says Rohini Sonawane, COO of MicroWorld. \u201cFrom death stories of Vladimir Putin, to the heart attack of the Australian prime minister to the resurrection of Boris Yeltsin, these ploys have always triggered an instant reaction from a good number of computer users.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Most such attacks in the past were in the form of e-mails carrying sensational attachments. But in the case of malwares using instant messages like the one in question, it\u2019s about just one click. The best social engineering is when you don\u2019t give an opportunity for the targeted user to think, and instead get them to act on reflexes, adds Rohini.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Win32.VB.au is written in Visual Basic language and comes with a size of 122 880 bytes. The malware creates a few registry entries so that it gets executed every time the computer is started. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The IM worm does not contain any dangerous payload in its present form. But similar methods can be employed by virus writers in proliferating more destructive worms or Trojan downloaders in a possible second wave of attacks. Exploiting vulnerabilities in instant messages is another mode of malware proliferation that is getting increasing attention from virus writers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Check out this animation of Bush&#8221; &#8211; says a message popping up in your MSN Messenger. If you click on the link that follows to see the president of America letting his hair down, you will be unwittingly inviting a worm to do some fast-paced moves inside your computer, says MicroWorld Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}