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LURHQ: Myfip Intellectual Property Theft Worm Analysis

Thanks to Miko over on the F-Secure "News from the Lab" Blog for pointing this out.

It is a fascinating read. Here's an en excerpt of the LURHQ analysis:

Myfip is a network worm discovered in August of 2004. It didn't get an extreme amount of attention at the time, just a few articles talking about a new worm which stole PDF files. It wasn't terribly widespread or damaging, so it didn't rate very high on the antivirus companies' threat indicators. However, it is still worth paying attention to because the potential for damage to a company can actually be greater than with other worms. A Slammer or Blaster outbreak might take the network down for a while, but an incident like that can be recovered from. If the wrong document leaves your network it could have devastating consequences.

posted by Fergie @ 8/26/2005 06:34:00 AM