US Marshalls hit by Virus

Computerworld is reporting that the US Marshalls Service was hit by a computer virus early Thursday morning (5/21). According to sketchy reports the virus was a new variant of the Neeris virus, which has recently started mimicking the widespread and highly-successful Conficker virus.

If this is correct, the primary infection vector was most likely through the worm's new adaptation to infection by MS08-067. [exploit code here] Although it was possible it infected by hand (usb key, email, or other) it most likely was spreading via the internal network in this manner and that is why they disconnected from the DOJ network.

More details to follow if I can find source code or .ASM for Neeris...