Re: Money-spewing Conficker

["Alex Lanstein" <alanstein () FireEye com>]

April Fools'd ;-)

Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/conficker_worm_strikes_militar.html?wprss=securityfix
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> - In Iceland, Conficker brought a brief thaw to the long economic winter
> that began last year with the government's inexorable slide into
> bankruptcy. According to local news reports, shortly after midnight
> local time, an ATM in the capital city of Reykjavik began spewing
> 100-Krona notes. Banking officials there reportedly said the Microsoft
> Windows-based based bank system began disbursing the bills after a local
> prankster crammed an infected USB stick into the maw of the teller machine.
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Regards,

Alex Lanstein
Network/Systems Architect
FireEye, Inc.
http://blog.fireeye.com
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