Wednesday, 23. February 2005
Topic: SECURITY - on February 23, 2005 at 5:54:00 PM CET
Latest Mydoom shows hackers using search engines for attacks
Last week's Mydoom worm variant is the latest example of how some hackers are using search engines to spread worms, find easily exploitable targets and unearth vulnerability information for launching attacks (see story).
The Mydoom.be @MM worm first discovered on Feb. 20 was a mass-mailing worm that used its own SMTP engine to send e-mails to addresses it gathered from compromised computers. The worm was also programmed to harvest e-mail addresses from search engines such as Google, AltaVista and Lycos and then use them to distribute itself further.
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