A MSN Messenger Trojan spreading like wildfire via an IRC botnet is infecting thousands of computer systems worldwide.
The malware poses as pictures with a message similar to “hey, this your pic” “hey, is this your pic on this site” with an URL from a site that hosts a picture rating service. Click on that and soon you will be part of a malware spreading botnet. Owned.
The usual common sense applies, do not open files sent unexpectedly from friends or strangers.
The eSafe CSRT (Content Security Response Team) at Aladdin —a security company—detected the new threat propagating around noon EST on Nov. 18. At 18:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), eSafe had detected 1 operator and more than 500 on-command bots in the network. Less than three hours later, or by 2:30 EST, when eWEEK spoke with Roei Lichtman, eSafe director of product management, the number had soared to several thousand PCs and was growing by several hundred systems per hour.
Lisa Vaas eWeek
eSafe reports the Trojan is the first they have tracked trying to scan for VNC (Virtual Network Computing).
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