IRC Botnet Leveraging Unpatched Plesk Vulnerability

Researchers have found a botnet exploiting a vulnerability in the Plesk hosting control panel, ramping up calls from experts to upgrade to current versions of the product. A notice on the Plesk command injection vulnerability as well as exploit code was posted last week to the Full Disclosure lis...

How to identify and clean Conficker infections

As the world prepares for the complete destruction of the Internet tomorrow when the Conficker worm makes a small change in its communication protocol, a voice of reason has emerged from the wilderness. The Honeynet Project on Monday released a paper with a detailed analysis of the worm as well a...

CVE-2007-2852

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.70.37.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during 1 delete/disinfect or 2 rename operations via a crafted directory name...

IRC Bot ident Server Detection

This host seems to be running an ident server, but the ident server responds to an empty query with a random userid. This behavior may be indicative of an IRC bot, worm and/or virus infection. It is very likely this system has been compromised. IRC bot ident server detection Created: 9/22/04 Last...