Project Snowblind Worm

[ngibson]

http://www.technibble.com/project-snowblind-worm/
http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2009/02/3229.html

Sophos has posted an article on their blog about a game installer that also includes a worm.

The game is titled Project: Snowblind. It is a multi-player first-person shooter from Eidos. The worm that comes with the installer is vghhost.exe. It is a network worm and also an IRC backdoor Trojan.

It can perform screen captures and log information among other processes. The author of the of the article notes that users should download legitimate freeware games from reputable sites or from the game publisher’s website.

The last sentence I bolded applies to just about anything on the internet. Don't follow emailed links to your bank account, credit card information, sales etc. You should manually type in the domain name to be sure you're getting to the right place. There are so many phishing sites, redirects etc out there, just use some common sense. </rant>

 

[SAS]

damn bro porject snowblind came out so long ago LMAO

 

[ngibson]

damn bro porject snowblind came out so long ago LMAO

I know, wasn't it like 2005 or something like that? But either way, this popped up a couple of the tech sites I visit - over the last day or so, so it's definitely a new threat.