Crisis Virus Can Now Invade VMWare Virtual Machines

Crisis malware, otherwise known as Morcut, which was discovered in July seems to be more sinister after it underwent detailed analysis. Researchers have discovered that it can also affect VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices and removable USB drives. According to Symantec, the virus doesn’t directly exploit any vulnerability of the VMware software instead it searches for a VMware virtual machine image on a infected system and mounts it and then copies itself onto the image by using a VMware Player tool.  This news has also been confirmed by Kaspersky. The malware has been known to spread itself in following three ways:

    [*]Copying itself and an autorun.inf file on to a removable disk drive
    [*]Sneaking into a VMware virtual machine
    [*]Drop modules onto a Windows Mobile device using Remote Application Programming Interface

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How The Crisis Malware Spreads

As you might be knowing, Crisis is a unique rootkit that was previously known to affect both Windows and Mac OS X systems as it makes itself look like a flash player installer and depending on the OS it delivers the corresponding JAR file to infect the system. The work of this virus is to record Skype conversations, monitor instant messaging programs in Mac and track websites visited in Firefox or Safari.

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