ISR News: ‘Downandup’ WORM Up
Excerpt by InformationWeek.com’s Thomas Claburn
In October, Microsoft took the unusual step of issuing an out-of-band Security Bulletin, MS08-067, for a vulnerability affecting its Server service. “Because the vulnerability is potentially wormable on those older versions of Windows [XP and earlier], we’re encouraging customers to test and deploy the update as soon as possible,” said Christopher Budd, a Microsoft Security Response Center security program manager, in a blog post.
Microsoft’s concerns have proven to be well founded. The MS08-067 Worm, also known as “Downadup” and “Conflicker,” has been spreading like the plague. “The number of Downandup infections are skyrocketing based on our calculations,” F-Secure’s Toni Kovunen said in a blog post Friday. “From an estimated 2.4 million infected machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days. That’s just amazing.”
“The situation with Downandup is not getting better,” he added. “It’s getting worse.”
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