MyDoom still doubling as hackers exploit open doors;
FBI on trail
London, UK - 30 January 2004, 12:30 GMT - The number of MyDoom infections
are still doubling as the malware shows no signs of subsiding four days on
from when it was originally first captured in Russia. Meanwhile, the backdoors
which MyDoom has created on millions of infected computers are being exploited
by both domestic and trans-national hackers in most major countries but particularly
in the US, Germany and Brazil. The FBI is engaged in a massive global investigation
to identify the perpetrator(s) of the MyDoom cyber crime.
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