Malware against malware
Filed in archive Spam News by Ivy on February 20, 2007

"But one researcher traced the Trojan further back than that. According to an analysis by Joe Stewart, a SecureWorks senior security researcher, Peacomm is actually a spinoffof last year's "Nuwar" worm. "It's pretty much the same code," said Stewart. Both Stewart and Huger also noted that the Trojan has been behind several recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against antispam Web sites, as well as servers supporting rival malware."
The worm spreads through AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger, as a message pretending to come from a trusted source.
Could this be a beginning of a new malware on malware war? Hope so, maybe they will forget all about us, normal people.
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