Interesting Occurrence

Mon Jun 21 18:17:13 UTC 2004

Not the best place to ask (full-discloure or the incidents list perhaps), 
but there are numerous phishing scams going of late (I get 3 or 4 a day) 
that exploit an unpatched IE bug....

e.g. the spam reads

You Have a VoiceMessage Waiting Priority :Urgent From:xxx xxx 
http://www.ONEvoicemailbox.net/voicemail/

(replace ONE with "1" in the host)-- I strongly suggest NOT going to this 
site with IE

This particular site crams in a keylogger into your PC by use of
http://221.4.203.78/bestadult/shellscript_loader.js
http://221.4.203.78/bestadult/shellscript.js

         ---Mike

At 01:44 PM 21/06/2004, Brent_OKeeffe at asc.aon.com wrote:

>Okay... Here is a new one for me.  Got a call from my dad saying he left 
>his PC on last night connected to his broadband.  He went to log in this 
>morning and noticed a new ID in his user list - IWAP_WWW.  He immediately 
>deleted is and called me.  I had him ensure his critical updates we all 
>applied - they were.  I had him ensure his antivirus was up to date - it 
>was (Norton Antivirus 2004).  He is running XP Home.
>
>I searched the antivirus sites and elsewhere for references.  Any idea if 
>there is a new vulnerability that has not been publicly released?  Any clues?
>
>Regards,
>Brent