Microsoft "solves" hacking mystery (Was RE: WIN2K IRC Trojan)

["Wirth, Jeff" <WirthJe () DNB com>]

...makes you wonder if the experts at Microsoft PSS can even spell
"security"....;-)

> From news.com (cnet):

"Microsoft has determined that these attacks do not appear to exploit any
new product-related security vulnerabilities and do not appear to be viral
or worm-like in nature," the software giant stated in an advisory posted
late Friday. "Instead, the attacks seek to take advantage of situations
where (proper) precautions have not been taken." 

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957159.html?tag=fd_top

- Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Yackley [mailto:Matt.Yackley () perkinswill com]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:39 PM
> To: 'Mike Shaw'; 'snort-users () lists sourceforge net'
> Subject: RE: [Snort-users] WIN2K IRC Trojan
>
>
> Still trying to find out myself, this article from Wired 
> seems to have the
> most actual info I have seen yet, but its not much....
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54942,00.html
>
> Also the information in the article is more of what the 
> trojans do, but so
> far I haven't seen any info on how the trojans get planted in 
> the first
> place.....
>
> I'm guessing that someone is taking advantage of 
> CR/Nimda/SQLSnake infected
> machines to get in and plant this updated IRC backdoor... 
> Well that's my
> theory anyway :)
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Shaw [mailto:mshaw () wwisp com]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:14 PM
> To: Ian Macdonald; F.M. Taylor; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] WIN2K IRC Trojan
>
>
> What are the details on the trojan?  I may have a copy on the way.
>
> -Mike
>
> At 03:53 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> > If anyone has any details on how this works please send them to the
> > snort-sigs mailing list so we can write some sigs.
> >
> > Ian
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "F.M. Taylor" <root () uranium indstate edu>
> > To: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:11 PM
> > Subject: [Snort-users] WIN2K IRC Trojan
> >
> >
> > > Dudez, wtf is up with this trojan/hack/bot/win2k exploit 
> that seems to
> be
> > > speading itself fairly rapidly.  Is there a sig for this 
> yet?  Does
> anyone
> > > even know how this thing is being spread??
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike Taylor
> > > Coordinator of Systems Administration and Network Security
> > > Indiana State University.               Rankin Hall Rm 053
> > > 210 N 7th St.                           Terre Haute, IN.
> > > SANS GSEC  http://www.sans.org/
> > >
> > >
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