New Zafi, New cyberwar?

We detected a new variant of Zafi today, Zafi.c. The first two Zafi’s spread widely, so we plan to keep a close eye on how things go.

It seems that Zafi.c was written in Hungary. The difference between Zafi.a and Zafi.b is that the author decided to join the cyberwar between the Mydoom, Bagle and Netsky authors. He included the following message:

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