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Re: kornet.net abuse desk is mailing out W32.Nimda.E@mm worm
- From: Steven M. Bellovin
- Date: Tue Oct 30 14:16:33 2001
In message <195358945566.20011030133637@conti.nu>, Kai Schlichting writes:
>
>If you or your staff have dealt with kornet.net (a Korean ISP belonging
>to Korean Telecom), and specifically abuse@kornet.net in the past, beware:
>It seems that they've been overrun by the brand-spanking-new W32.Nimda.E@mm
>worm (**) sometimes late last night.
>
>Specific case in hand: yesterday at 9:40pm EST, I received a mail
>with a Subject: line of an UNRELATED abuse issue (hello MFNX/XO/
>Above.net :) that contains a MIME attachment with an auto-playing
>"sound file" of sample.exe , openened in an <iframe> of your favorite
>Microsoft email client. Source IP of the mailing : 210.222.17.36 (/24).
Note, however, that the From: line on these Nimda variants is also
forged; see http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a@mm.html
for details. (I received several messages saying that some mail I sent
was infected with Nimda.E. This struck me as quite improbable, since I
use NetBSD for all my email and other real work.)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
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