{"id":135,"date":"2005-11-21T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T21:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2005-11-21T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T21:12:57","slug":"source-of-aim-worm-is-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/21\/source-of-aim-worm-is-in-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Source of AIM Worm is in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers in the <em>Middle East<\/em> may be compromising computers that use <strong>AOL Instant Messenger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/resource\/article\/0,aid,123623,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp\">PCWorld.com &#8211; AIM Worm Spreads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/november\/aol.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>The W32\/Sdbot-ADD worm infecting some users of AOL Instant Messenger is <em>more dangerous<\/em> than previously thought, according to Facetime Security Labs, the researchers who discovered the worm in October.<\/p>\n<p>The rootkit installed by the worm, lockx.exe, is allowing systems to be further compromised by a <em>group of attackers based in the Middle East<\/em>, according to Facetime researchers. The attackers are installing additional malicious code <em>capable of stealing personal information<\/em>, according to the group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers in the Middle East may be compromising computers that use AOL Instant Messenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}