Sunday, September 03, 2006

Virus writers target upcoming Windows scripting language

An Austrian group of virus writers has published new proof of concept malware code that targets the forthcoming Windows Powershell technology.

The MSH/Cibyz worm doesn’t exploit any vulnerability in the scripting tool. Instead it's similar to batch-type viruses written in Javascript or Visual Basic (VB) that instruct a system to install malware after a users executes the script.

Source : http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161396/virus-writers-target-upcoming

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