Old bugs, it seems, do not die – nor do they fade away – as Dennis Fisher, editor of Kaspersky Lab's ThreatPost newswire says that there is a new worm in the wild that is compromising servers running older versions of the JBoss Application Server and then adding them to a botnet. The worm, he added, also attempts to install a remote access tool in order to give the attacker control over the newly infected server.


https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/jboss-worm-exploiting-old-bug-to-infect-unpatched/
Old bugs, it seems, do not die – nor do they fade away – as Dennis Fisher, editor of Kaspersky Lab's ThreatPost newswire says that there is a new worm in the wild that is compromising servers running older versions of the JBoss Application Server and then adding them to a botnet. The worm, he added, also attempts to install a remote access tool in order to give the attacker control over the newly infected server.
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:19:00 GMT
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/jboss-worm-exploiting-old-bug-to-infect-unpatched/

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