New Santy Variants Spread Beyond Google

December 28, 2004 at 5:28 pm · Filed under Digital Cameras, spam

CRN | Breaking News | New Santy Variants Spread Beyond Google “By Matt Villano, CRN 7:22 PM EST Tue. Dec. 28, 2004

The Santy worm, which appeared just before the Christmas holiday and uses search engines to spread, appears to be morphing into dangerous variants, virus experts warned Tuesday.

Much like the original, the Santy variations target Web bulletin boards designed with the open-source PHP scripting language. But a few of the mutated forms, such as Santy.E and Santy.C (also known as PhpInclude.Worm) focus on different parts of the PHP code by using multiple programming flaws to gain entry.

While incidents of the Santy worm have decreased dramatically since Google started blocking it, the new versions now use search engines such as AOL and Yahoo! to enable remote attackers to inject malicious code into PHP scripts.”

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