Dec
29
2008
This year, just as every year, Chinese hackers have been sending out Christmas cards to all their friends. Remember, you’ll probably be getting one for New Year’s too:
Nguyen Minh Duc, the manager of Bach Khoa’s application security group, said that XmasStorm originated in China. Hackers have registered at least 75 domain names relating to the malware campaign’s holiday theme in the last month, including “superchristmasday.com” and “funnychristmasguide.com.” According to WHOIS searches, those domains were registered to a Chinese address on Dec. 1 and Dec. 19, respectively.
Nov
28
2007
Looks like we all might be getting coal this year. Post later today.
UPDATE: Looks like the story has devolved and only I will be getting coal this year. The post I was originally following about a new Christmas virus posted on November 17th of this year, was actually a reprint of the Chinese Christmas e-mail virus that was released last year in a flash animation. Bottom line…I blew it.
However, I will go out on a limb and say it is only a matter of weeks before I post another story about a new Chinese Christmas virus, since they have basically released one every year for the last several.
Posted under: Wrong, dumb, stupid, premature and I got no friends.
