Re: Money-spewing Conficker

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Yeah, one of only a few good ones I've seen today.  Seems like a dry day
for April Fools. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Lanstein [mailto:alanstein () fireeye com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:49 PM
To: Alex Eckelberry
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Money-spewing Conficker

April Fools'd ;-)

Alex Eckelberry wrote:
>
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/conficker_worm_stri
kes_militar.html?wprss=securityfix
>  
>
> - 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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