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Orkut targetted By New Worm
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Jun 19, 2006
In a virtual deja vu of the Yahoo virus and what could be the start of a disturbing new trend, a new worm that attempts to steal online banking information is spreading rapidly on Google's social-networking Web site Orkut. First uncovered by security firm Facetime Security Labs, the worm, dubbed MW.Orc, primarily targets Brazilian users of Google's Orkut Web site.

It uses a message in Portuguese to entice people to click on a file that is disguised as a JPEG image. The initial file, called "minhasfotos.exe," creates two additional files on a user's system - "winlogon_.jpg" and "wzip32.exe," When the user, after the initial compromise, clicks on the "My Computer" icon in Windows XP, an e-mail with his or her personal data which has been gathered from the user's hard drive is sent to the anonymous attacker.

Apart from this the compromised computer is connected to a malicious network of compromised PC's. This rather nasty worm also tries to propagate by placing a malicious link on the profiles of people in the Orkut user's network.

Google confirmed the worm. "We are aware of this issue and will have a temporary fix in place within the hour," a company representative said in an e-mailed statement to the security firm FaceTime Security Labs who by analyzing suspicious network behavior detected the worm.

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seems tht now orkut has taken precuation to remove this worm.good!!
secgeeks @ Aug 12, 2006
A round up of stories on the Orkut worm. I can't promise any more Ben Stiller quotes, but you're still in for some pretty kickass reading... CNN Techworld EWeek CNET CCNewsMoneycontrol ...and my personal favourite so far from Jimmy Daniels at Realtechnews. He calls me "The Paperghost". How cool is that? Of course, now I'm going to have to refer to myself as "The Goddamn Paperghost
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