Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Yahoo Webmail Worm on the Loose

Security experts are warning of a new e-mail worm that takes advantage of a flaw in Yahoo's Web mail system to redirect users to advertising sites and to spread the worm to everyone in the victim's e-mail address book.

SANS says it's aware of two versions of this worm going around, released just two hours apart: "The [quick] release of a new version ... which partially fixes the first version indicates that the code is very much under development and you should assume that the remaining bugs will be rapidly ironed out."

Read the article HERE.

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