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August 27, 2003: A potential DDoS attack against HP is discovered in one variant of the worm. [8] January 1, 2004: Welchia deletes itself. [20] January 13, 2004: Microsoft releases a stand-alone tool to remove the MSBlast worm and its variants. [23] February 15, 2004: A variant of the related worm Welchia is discovered on the internet. [24]
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) is a proprietary Microsoft technology for communication between software components on networked computers. DCOM, which originally was called "Network OLE ", extends Microsoft's COM , and provides the communication substrate under Microsoft's COM+ application server infrastructure.
New variants attack mobile phone banking information. [69] Anti-Spyware 2011, a Trojan horse that attacks Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7, posing as an anti-spyware program. It disables security-related processes of anti-virus programs, while also blocking access to the Internet, which prevents updates. [70]
Earlier versions mostly used the RPC DCOM buffer overflow, although now some use the LSASS buffer overflow. The ability to spread via various common backdoor Trojan horses . The ability to spread to systems with weak administrative passwords.
The Havex malware was discovered by cybersecurity researchers at F-Secure and Symantec and reported by ICS-CERT utilizing information from both of these firms in 2013. [4] [5] The ICS-CERT Alert reported analyzing a new malware campaign targeting ICS equipment via several attack vectors and using OPC to conduct reconnaissance on industrial equipment on the target network.
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At the time there were a number of major projects to deliver such a system, including IBM's System Object Model (SOM/DSOM), NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects, Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM/DCOM) and many CORBA flavors. Sun, attempting to position itself as the future IBM in terms of backoffice support, felt they had to attack this ...