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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Bagel is back, again!

According to my Finnish friends, F-Secure, Bagle looks like it might be back in business. Not that it has ever really gone away of course, as it is one of the most prevalent of worm families.

F-Secure have noticed new activity during the last couple of days, which sees a number of old Bagle update URLs activated again. This time they are making a new executable available, which can be downloaded and executed by those machines already infected by previous variant. Of course, one thing never really changes and that is the payload, so expect to see spams containing infected attachments, this time with filenames that refer to price lists as an inducement to open them. Handily, the spam also comes complete with an image that illustrates the password required to decode the attached Zip archives.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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