CME - 24 aka Nyxem, and who's infected?

Today, the F-Secure's team released a neat world map with the Nyxem.E infections. As you can see the U.S and Europe have been most successfully targeted, but I wonder would it be the same given the author started localizing the subject/body messages found within the worm to other languages? Who seeks to cause damage instead of controlling information and network assets these days? A pissed off commodities trader? :) or on request, as the original version of the worm "can perform a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the New York Mercantile Exchange website (www.nymex.com)", still that's 2 years ago.

Tomorrow is the day when the worm should originally start deleting all all *.doc, *.xls, *.mdb, *.mde, *.ppt, *.pps, *.zip, *.rar, *.pdf, *.psd and *.dmp on an infected PC's, supposedly network drives as well, what I also expect is more devastation on the 3rd of March given the same happens every month. And while I doubt there's still someone out there unaware of this, perhaps, released under "revenge mode" malware, check out Internet Storm Center's summary, and know know your enemy, hopefully not until next month again! UPDATE : You can actually go through another post in order to update yourself with some recent malware developments.

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