When Worms Get Literate: Here’s an article on OSNews that explains how a new worm is finding phpBB installations to infect.
[…] the Santy worm sported a relatively new “feature”: it was using the Google search engine in order to automatically find its next victims; as far as I know, this might well be the first time such a creative use of search engines has been adopted by a worm spotted in the wild.
Hats off to Google for their responsiveness. They identified the request signature and started intercepting the worm’s search requests.
Google Search: inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="; We've talked about using Google "inurl" searches before to find different content management systems based on their URL signature. But now someone has figured out the URL signature to a certain security camera and you can find thousands of them, unsecured on the Net. Sadly, while they…
An article on Cnet News says that Santy variants have already shown up that use AOL and Yahoo instead of Google.
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