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Zotob worm makes little progress
News As of Monday morning on the West Coast of the US, the original Zotob.A had infected about 50 computers worldwide, and the first variant, Zotob.B, had compromised about 1,000 systems, the antivirus software maker said.
[August 16, 2005, 9:20]
Zotob authors locked up
News A Moroccan court has jailed two men for releasing the Zotob computer worm, which hit up to 250,000 Windows PCs last year. Farid Essebar, 19, and his accomplice Achraf Bahloul, both from Morocco, were handed sentences of two years and one year...
[September 13, 2006, 15:40]
Zotob worm targets Windows 2000
News The Zotob worm exploits a flaw which primarily affects the Windows 2000 platform but has an impact on Windows XP Service Pack I. Mark Sinclair, technical services director at Trend Micro Australia, told ZDNet Australia that it was about to issue a...
[August 15, 2005, 8:55]
Zotob suspects linked to underground network
News One of the virus writers suspected of creating the Zotob and Mytob worms has been linked to a notorious network of malware creators called 0x90-team. Users could request and share malicious code such as the Zotob, Rbot and SDbot viruses.
[August 30, 2005, 16:55]
Zotob worm highlights security failings
News It was the speed of the Zotob worm's attack that took businesses by surprise this week rather than any particular sophistication in the assault itself, experts said on Wednesday. There were just a few days between Microsoft issuing a patch for a...
[August 17, 2005, 15:10]
Exploit code raises fresh Zotob alarm
News Exploit code was published Friday for a Windows flaw similar to the vulnerability that led to the Zotob worm that wreaked havoc in August. That flaw led to the spread of the Zotob worm, which took down systems across the US, including at cable news...
[October 24, 2005, 9:35]
Credit card fraud ring implicated in Zotob affair
News Turkish authorities have linked one of the suspects in the Zotob worm case to individuals thought to be part of a credit card fraud ring, according to the FBI. Ekici was one of two men arrested last week for allegedly unleashing several computer...
[August 31, 2005, 10:15]
Two arrested over Zotob worm
News Law enforcement officials have arrested two men suspected of unleashing of a pair of computer worms, including last week's Zotob, which hit servers at American Express, The New York Times and elsewhere.
[August 30, 2005, 8:50]
Windows XP 'vulnerable to Zotob flaw'
News The Zotob worm and its offshoots, plus several other worms, downed Windows 2000 computers, including systems at ABC, CNN and The New York Times. The plug-and-play vulnerability that wrought havoc among Windows 2000 users last week also holds a...
[August 24, 2005, 8:50]
Flawed code limited Zotob's impact
News Havoc caused by variants of the Zotob worm could have been far worse had they not contained 'flaws', security companies said on Thursday. It is hardly surprising that there are a whole bunch of [Zotob] variants".
[August 19, 2005, 10:15]
Free Zotob removal tool offered
News The Zotob worm started spreading on Sunday. The updated cleaning program checks for and removes infections from Zotob.A through Zotob.E as well as Bobax.O, Esbot.A, Rbot.MA, Rbot.MB and Rbot.MC, according to Microsoft.
[August 18, 2005, 10:05]
Exploit code raises fresh Zotob alarm
Talkback Surprise, I guess they didn't really close that hole in the OS huh ? Azx
[October 24, 2005, 21:34]
Zotob worm makes little progress
Talkback Remember: it's a "Microsoft worm", not a "computer worm, a "Microsoft virus", not an "email virus".
[August 16, 2005, 15:51]
Free Zotob removal tool offered
Talkback Why has MS chosen not to release security patches and instead bundled unrelated changes into the updates? None of Microsoft's abundance of "service packs", "patches", "roll outs" and "upgrades", actually address by itself.
[August 18, 2005, 13:44]
Flawed code limited Zotob's impact
Talkback It was also a slow-moving MS worm. Sapphire used 8.5 minutes to reach saturation. Not to be too tongue in cheek, but the poor design of the worm and its production flaws lend credibility to the folks out there who consider it to be an attempt by MS...
[August 20, 2005, 9:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Zotob? It's been a while since a worm did as much high-profile damage as Zotob has, although once again it hasn't lived up to the hype. Hardly: the company had previously issued a patch for the Zotob vulnerability and warned people about it.
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
Windows 2000 users face multiple attacks
News Users rushing to protect themselves from the Zotob worm are being warned not to take their eyes off other threats as McAfee raises its alert level on the newly discovered IRCbot to the highest alert. The vulnerability has also been leapt on by the...
[August 17, 2005, 15:45]
Windows worms wreak havoc
News Tokyo-based antivirus company Trend Micro blames the havoc on various worms, including the Zotob worm that hit the Internet over the weekend and new variants of the Rbot worm. The SANS Internet Storm Centre, which tracks network threats, attributes...
[August 17, 2005, 10:15]
Windows attack code released
News On Windows 2000 systems, the flaw could be exploited via the net by an anonymous attacker without any user interaction, raising the possibility of the arrival of a Zotob-like worm. Both McAfee and Qualys say a Zotob-like worm attack is probable.
[November 17, 2006, 9:29]
