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Because a worm is not limited by the host program, worms can take advantage of various operating system vulnerabilities to carry out active attacks. For example, the "Nimda" virus exploits vulnerabilities to attack. Complexity. Some worms are combined with web page scripts, and are hidden in HTML pages using VBScript, ActiveX and other ...
Attack computers that had previously been infected by the Mydoom worm. ExploreZip: I-Worm.ZippedFiles June 6, 1999 Spread through zipped documents in a spam e-mail. Father Christmas: HI.COM December 1988 Hybris: Snow White, Full Moon, Vecna.22528 December 11, 2000 Brazil: Vecna Spread through an e-mail from "haha@sexyfun.net". ILOVEYOU ...
The worm was most notable for performing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on www.sco.com, which belonged to The SCO Group. February 16: The Netsky worm is discovered. The worm spreads by email and by copying itself to folders on the local hard drive as well as on mapped network drives if available. Many variants of the Netsky worm ...
Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar. Within just 20 hours [1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time. [3] The message on a victim's profile
Virus & worms: Attacks through the internet, emails or contaminated files, then automatically replicates itself. Viruses require human action to spread to other computers, whereas worms spread by ...
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". [1]
On 15 July 2010, the day the worm's existence became widely known, a distributed denial-of-service attack targeted the servers of two leading mailing lists on industrial-systems security. This attack, from an unknown source but possibly related to Stuxnet, disabled one of the lists, interrupting a key information source for power plants and ...
Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in November 2008. [2] It uses flaws in Windows OS software (MS08-067 / CVE-2008-4250) [3] [4] and dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and has been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use ...