full-disclosure - Sobig has a surprise...

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Message-ID: <87ada1jy9g.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Sobig has a surprise...

Steve Postma <spostma@...vizon.com> cites:

> However, the Sobig.F worm has a surprise attack in its sleeve." 

>From the web site:

| "As soon as we were able to crack the encryption used by the worm to
| hide the list of the 20 machines, we've been trying to close them
| down", explains Mikko Hypponen.

18 of 20 addresses where known to the AV community since Tuesday.  I
don't know what F-Secure is doing here.

Why don't they publish the list of IP addresses so that people can put
filters on their networks?

*sigh*