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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
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1. 6/21: Symbos-Skulls-M Trojan Goes Mobile
Symbos_Skulls.M is a Trojan that affects mobile devices running the Symbian operating
system with the Series 60 Platform user interface.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,8oso,4mvg,co7e,jjlo
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2. 6/21: Wurmark-A Worm In an Attachment
Worm_Wurmark.A arrives as attachment of an email message.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,2t3o,5f9p,co7e,jjlo
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3. 6/21: Trojan.Floodblack OKs Remote Acts
Trojan.Floodblack is a back door Trojan that allows a remote user to perform actions on a
compromised computer.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,bgp,41d3,co7e,jjlo
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4. 6/21: PWCrack-Finder not Virus or Trojan
PWCrack-Finder is not a virus or a Trojan.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,c5db,ic35,co7e,jjlo
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5. 6/21: Appflet-A Worm Harvests Addresses
W32/Appflet-A is a mass mailing worm for the Windows platform that sends itself to email
addresses harvested from the infected computer.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,5vur,ifn6,co7e,jjlo
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6. 6/21: VBS-Ipnuker-A a VB Script
VBS_Ipnuker.A is Visual Basic script (VBscript) that executes its propagation routine
only during the months of January, June, and December.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,5nnd,6zf9,co7e,jjlo
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7. 6/21: Mytob-FP a Mass-Mailing Worm
W32.Mytob.FP@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send an email to
addresses that it gathers from the compromised computer.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,htc4,jml0,co7e,jjlo
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8. 6/21: Rbot-AFV an Internet Worm and Trojan
W32/Rbot-AFV is an internet worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,blpp,ie53,co7e,jjlo
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9. 6/21: Banker-DJ a Password-Stealing Trojan
Troj/Banker-DJ is a multi-component password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform
targeted at customers of Brazilian banks.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,21rz,8len,co7e,jjlo
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10. Beware Being Tricked by the Social Engineer
A pretty young woman offers a bright smile and talks about the cafeteria food as she
follows an IT worker into the computer lab. But her only job there is to steal critical
information.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1pal,1,g0vz,g9h5,co7e,jjlo
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