New Morto Strain Emerges With File Infection Capability

A new strain of the Morto worm has added a file infection capability in addition to its existing ability to compromise remote desktop connections, according to new research from Microsoft. Now Morto is infecting files in the default RDP file share, ‘tsclient,’ after it determines which drives it...

Morto Worm Found Squirming on Chinese MMORPG Site

The Morto Worm began to make waves just three short weeks ago after working its way through Windows’ Remote Desktop Protocol RDP but now the worm appears to have an entirely new mode of transport: Jade Dynasty, a massively multiplayer online role playing game MMORPG that is popular in China...

Morto Worm Continues to Squirm, Windows 7 Infections Reported

The Morto worm that began compromising machines via open RDP services this past weekend is continuing its work, going after workstations and servers and creating large amounts of network traffic from TCP port 3389. The main attack vector that Morto uses is a large-scale scan for remote machines...

Morto Worm spreading via Remote Desktop Protocol

Morto Worm spreading via Remote Desktop Protocol Organizations large and small often make use of Remote Desktop or Terminal Services to remotely connect to Windows computers over the Internet and internally. These tools use Microsoft's RDP protocol to allow the user to operate the remote system...

Morto Worm spreading via Remote Desktop Protocol

Morto Worm spreading via Remote Desktop Protocol Organizations large and small often make use of Remote Desktop or Terminal Services to remotely connect to Windows computers over the Internet and internally. These tools use Microsoft's RDP protocol to allow the user to operate the remote system...

New Worm Morto Using RDP to Infect Windows PCs

A new worm called Morto has begun making the rounds on the Internet in the last couple of days, infecting machines via RDP Remote Desktop Protocol. The worm is generating a large amount of outbound RDP traffic on networks that have infected machines, and Morto is capable of compromising both...