Virus spreading via Delphi programming language
A new virus outbreak has been detected and reportedly spreading quickly. Researchers at SonicWALL and SophosLabs claim that the Win32.Induc virus infects applications built using Delphi, an object-oriented, visual programming environment derived from the Pascal language, used to develop applications for deployment on the web, Windows and Linux.
Once a computer is infected, any code or documents written on that machine will automatically be infected, enabling the virus to spread as an executable file of itself, SonicWALL researchers stated in a release. Though the virus is not showing signs of malicious intent, it is evidence of yet another enterprising way for hackers to infect computers with alarming ease, the researchers said.
"This malware just spreads, it doesn't delete files or do anything malicious," Nick Bilogorskiy, manager of anti-virus research at SonicWALL, told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday. "What is new and interesting about this is that it is being spread by innocent, already infected parties, such as developers who use the Delphi programming language."
