RE: Sobig has a surprise...

["Jonathan Grotegut" <jgrotegut () directpointe com>]

Anyone able to verify this with another site (eeye, any other antivirus
firm)?

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Postma [mailto:spostma () travizon com] 
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:28 PM
To: 'full-disclosure () lists netsys com'
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Sobig has a surprise...

 

Taken from f-secure web site

 

 

"A potentially massive Internet attack starts today

 

F-Secure Corporation is warning about a new level of attack to be
unleashed by the Sobig.F worm today. 

Helsinki, Finland - August 22, 2003

Windows e-mail worm Sobig.F, which is currently the most widespread worm
in the world, has created massive e-mail outages globally since it was
found on Tuesday the 18th of August - four days ago. The worm spreads
itself via infected e-mail attachments in e-mails with a spoofed sender
address. Total amount of infected e-mails seen in the Internet since
this attack started is close to 100 million. 

However, the Sobig.F worm has a surprise attack in its sleeve." 

 

 

http://www.f-secure.com/news/items/news_2003082200.shtml