[CS-FSLUG] OT: Worm attack forces Reuters IM offline

[Fred A. Miller]

"The London-based international media company decided to take its Reuters 
Messaging system completely offline after noticing the attack on its network 
earlier on Thursday, a Reuters representative said. 

The new variant attempted to spread by sending fake instant messages to people 
in contact lists on infected systems, a technique used by earlier Kelvir 
strains. The messages, crafted to look exactly like legitimate IM 
correspondence, attempted to lure people to a Web site where their computers 
would be infected with Kelvir, the representative said."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5671139.html?tag=nl.e589

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