Kaspersky Lab has detected a new instant messenger worm that spreads through Skype, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger and Live MSN Messenger. The biggest infections were registered in Mexico and Brazil. It is written in VB and the C&C is located on an IRC channel (an old botnet technique recycled by the Mexican coders). It seems like the criminals behind the worm are now at the first stage of the crime infecting as many machines as they can to have a good offers after to another criminals: pay per install, spam and others.”]
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