Virus writers continue targeting Microsoft’s latest ideas

Another piece of malware for MS Powershell.

Another piece of malware for

Microsoft

‘s

Powershell

is making the news. The script virus exploits the new command shell, formerly known as Monad and originally planned to be part of the

Vista

release. Cibyz is described as ‘experimental’ and ‘proof of concept’, which can usually be taken to mean it doesn’t really work. The same authors were also behind last year’s Damon/Danom script, which kicked up controversy between

Microsoft

and

F-Secure

.

Read about Cibyz at

vnunet

.

And at

The Register

.

Posted on 02 August 2006 by

Virus Bulletin