China Busts Notorious Virus Suspects

Internet authorities say Li Jun, 25, a resident in the provincial capital of Wuhan, wrote virus program and let it loose on the Internet last October. The authorities say Li confessed to selling the virus to 12 people for 100,000 yuan (12,887 U.S. dollars).

These are multi-vector threats, usually including an aggressive downloader that updates itself frequently, can infect both executable and non-executable files over insecure media such as open network shares and USB drives, thus slipping through the cracks of loosely managed IT policies.

Once successful, trusted media files can be further infected with malicious code or hyperlinks through PE file infection, web-based exploits over HTML or media files targeted against unpatched and vulnerable applications.