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Re: thoughts
From: phester <funsec () armorfirewall com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:58:16 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, der Mouse wrote:
My own suspicion? It's a relatively ordinary botnet-in-prepraration, just run by someone who's willing to let it lie fallow for a few months in order to get better penetration before spinning it up.
What if a worm was designed to propagate as widely as possible, and then delete all Excel, Access and QuickBooks files? Most small businesses have no real backups. The economic losses could be huge. The same segment which is most vulnerable to infection would also be the most vulnerable to this sort of attack. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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