Symantec Spots Worm to Sabotage Businesses

A worm has been found that is designed to sabotage businesses, according to a Symantec blog. The worm attaches itself to the SQL data bases of business servers and starts seeking specific words. The worm, titled w32.Narilam, can erase data from drive storage and may be impossible to repair without a thorough data backup.

The worm targets corporate databases and is designed to sabotage and destroy data therefore disrupting business activity and costing businesses money and time in order to repair the damage and resume normal business. Most of the activity has been seen in the Middle East where once it gains hold in the system it spreads throughout the network to other drives and even USB drives attached to computers.

The worm is written in Delphi which is used to create other destructive malware targeting SQL databases. Dallas Virus Removal has experienced many of these destructive worms and viruses that may often corrupt and damage boot files where the system must be reinstalled. W32.Narilam, however, is not intended to steal data but simply to destroy data tables within the SQL database.

A caution for all business owners and individual computer users to always backup data and be prepared for disaster.