16 July 2008

Music to Malwares Ears?

As reported by Trend Micro there is a worrying new attack vector that malware writers are using to spread their code, multimedia. The malware apparently infects almost any multi-media files which, when opened, ask you to download a codec to play the file. The codec is actually the malware which then infects the computer.

As the Trend article pointed out this could be a massive problem because of P2P networks. Infected multimedia files could soon be flying around P2P networks infecting everyone.

Multimedia files are some of the most shared files and therefore this could be a very problematic attack to prevent. I would suggest that network administrators keep their eyes open and try to discorouge users from bringing multimedia files to the office.

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