[Mrluvaluva]

from www.metro.co.uk

A 'bad bunny' worm that downloads a graphic picture of a man wearing a bunny suit is infecting computers, an IT security firm has warned.

The Badbunny-A worm attempts to display a JPEG of an 'indecent' image of the man performing a sexual act in woodland.

The IT security firm Sophos said it affects the open source office suite OpenOffice/StarBasic and targets Windows, Mac and Linux computers.

The worm infects computer when users open an OpenOffice Draw file called badbunny.odg. A piece of code within the file performs different functions depending on whether the user is running Windows, MacOS or Linux, including executing other self-replicating viruses.

The worm also downloads and displays an illicit image of a 'scantily clad' woman with a man dressed as a rabbit, irrespective of the operating system being used.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said: 'The group responsible for writing the BadBunny malware doesn't seem to have much confidence in it spreading, as it sent the worm directly to our labs.

'The hackers have written plenty of StarBasic malware in the past, but the most 'in the wild' this one is likely to get is by displaying a picture of a furvert in the woods.

'This is old-school malware - seemingly written to show off and prove a proof of concept rather than a serious attempt to spy on and steal from computer users.

'A financially motivated hacker would have targeted more widely-used software and been more discreet in their use of imagery.'

[ben_evans_07]

thanks 4 telling me i will look out for that virus