full-disclosure - Skype worm in the wild

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:25:34 +0200 (EET)
From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio@...ti.fi>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Skype worm in the wild

New worm spreading with a malicious Skype Chat link and Skype application has been reported.

The dangerous link starts with "Check this!" pointing to .org address.
There is no information about unpatched issues in Skype, the worm just uses Skype to spread.

More details at
http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/blog/blog.php?BlogID=101
and
http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=766

- Juha-Matti

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