Malware Posing As Youtube Codec

Started by Humpty, Apr 09 2008 11:33 PM

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#1 OFFLINE Humpty

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Posted 09 April 2008 - 11:33 PM

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Several websites offer a YouTube-look-alike streaming video that is actually a link to Storm trojan. The infection vector is specially crafted and spread via love related blogs. This time, users are required to download the so-called Storm Codec in order to view the said video.

The said “codec” is actually a NUWAR/Storm variant, which Trend Micro already detects as WORM_NUWAR.JQ since April 2.

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 08:50 PM

I heard of this before. The fake codec's. One of these days, if they find a way, they will insert the malware with the video and as it streams to infect you. When you read things like this, you thank God for the Malware Experts!

public void dammit() {
damn.cmon(forYou);
damn.delete(You);
System.out.println("Mwuhahahaha");
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Posted 18 April 2008 - 07:52 AM

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When you read things like this, you thank God for the Malware Experts!

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#4 OFFLINE davey

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Posted 18 April 2008 - 08:49 AM

Sockdown, on Apr 17 2008, 04:50 PM, said:

One of these days, if they find a way, they will insert the malware with the video and as it streams to infect you. When you read things like this, you thank God for the Malware Experts!

Hello Sockdown,
I may be incorrect on this but I think they already did this on Lime Wire.
AHH!! LOVE!!!

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Humpty,
Thanks for the Heads Up.

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Posted 20 April 2008 - 12:31 PM

Malware Bytes is a good program, I use it and I've never had a problem.

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