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October 8, 2005
Another VB is over, a Joe Job and new UPnP worm
The VB Conference 2005 in Dublin is over.
There have been some interesting three days, with many good technical presentations (such as the one from which I've taken the image below, by Charles Renert) but also many good debates and exchange of ideeas between some of the big names in the AV industry.
At the same time, my e-mail address is being joe-jobbed; about 700 e-mails (bounces) every night. Too strange to be just a coincidence - the same thing happened last year, in Chicago, at VB 2004. One possible explanation is that spammers randomly select the address to put in the from field based on the date, so every year, you are being joe-jobbed on exactly the same date. I wonder if there are any other people having similar experiences?
And to make it a nice Saturday morning, there's a new UPNP-exploiting bot out there, which downloads crss.exe via TFTP from the exploit. Most of the attacks are now coming from the 83.142.x.x class, many of them in Poland.
Cheers from Dublin,
Posted by Costin Raiu at October 8, 2005 12:07 PM