Zindros vs Windows
p2pnet.net News:- For the second time, Microsoft is under attack from Mydoom.
At the beginning of the year Mydoom A. lit out after SCO and then switched its attention to Microsoft.
Now a new worm called Zindros is sneaking in through a backdoor dropped by Mydoom.M, says Finland’s F-Secure here, going on:
“Zindros and Mydoom.M work together. Mydoom.M laid out the path by infecting a large number of systems and preparing a list of them.
“Zindros hitches a ride on the Mydoom.F highway. It uses the lists and the backdors, prepared by Mydoom.M, to quickly spread and hit its target, which is www.microsoft.com.”
It’s payload is a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack.
“Mydoom.M uses Google, Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista search engines to find email and domain addresses,” says F-Secure, adding: “As a side effect the infected computers can not access these sites.”
Were MyDoom and Zindos authored by the same person?
Stay tuned.
