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Last week's worms/bots herald "Business Worms"

Via Red Herring.

The Internet worm Zotob, which recently attacked major corporations by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system, signals the rise of the “business worm,” or a new type of malicious software that targets enterprises rather than home users, security experts said Tuesday.

This new breed of worm is potentially more worrisome as it may be after information like corporate data and trade secrets, security pros said.

Previous worms like Blaster and Sasser have primarily sought to crash the computers of home users, conferring bragging rights on their hacker-creators in the murky world of security high jinks.

In its four-day run last week, Zotob infected computers at payment processing giant Visa, enterprises such as General Electric and UPS, and media companies including CNN, ABC, and the New York Times. Security experts said they don’t know if Zotob managed to steal any information when it wormed its way into corporate networks.

posted by Fergie @ 8/23/2005 05:05:00 PM