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Lovgate worm is back

thought dead live longer: The worm surfaced in February last Lovgate has now been spotted in Asia again in several new variants, makes the digital pest wide on computers in the Far East. Specifically, he has done in Singapore, South Korea and Japan damages.

WORM_LOVGATE.J is currently spreading rapidly in Korea, among other things, the Trend Micro. His siblings and WORM_LOVGATE.I WORM_LOVGATE.K. mainly affected computers in Singapore and Japan. As a common “father” of the virus experts have identified Lovgate.C who had appeared for the first time in February.

To be distributed in networks, leaving the virus copies itself into shared folders and subfolders. In addition, it contains a backdoor program that the affected network for unauthorized remote users open (port 10168).

The contemporary is particularly dangerous because he is a new social engineering tactics operate. He responds independently to e-mails that are in the mailbox of the affected user. The original sender of the e-mail, according to Trend Micro’s then receives a response which apparently refers to his e-mail.

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