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  Microsoft server worm can spread via USB
Time: 14:32 EST/19:32 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

A Microsoft worm that is currently attacking business systems is also a USB worm, security vendor F-Secure has warned.

The worm, which F-Secure calls Downadup, attacks the vulnerability outlined in MS08-067, a Windows Server service flaw that was patched in October.

The worm launches a dictionary attack to attempt to crack user passwords, and uses server-side polymorphism and modification to the Access Control Lists (ACL) "to make network disinfection particularly difficult", F-Secure said in a blog post on Tuesday.

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