JUPITER

NOTE: Not to be confused with the planet, Jupiter, or the Roman King of the gods, Jupiter .



JUPITER, also called AERO and JUPPITER, is a very infamous worm that struck computers and most iPhones in December 24th, 2014. It is still ravaging places all over the internet.

Description
The .exe file for JUPITER has a picture of the planet Jupiter, hence the worm's name. The creator of the worm sent E-Mails to all his friends containing the message "I got you a christmas present" and a link. The link contained JUPITER and would infect the person's computer if they clicked on it.

The worm is meant to deactivate malware-preventing programs like firewalls, Malwarebytes, Avast, CCleaner, etc. while having a firewall of its own. Once these are deactivated, it will get into ALL .exe files and .png files and corrupt them into the worm. When these apps are attempted to run, they will do nothing, rendering the computer useless.

In the second stage, the worm starts to copy itself and will infect any recently visited sites in the user's viewing history, also making them unviewable. By the time it is done, it will infect some computer shortcuts like CTRL + ALT + DELETE, which will render the computer nearly unusable. After 12 hours, the worms will get into any kind of E-Mail they have (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc.) and get into every single person who's sent them E-Mails and people in their contacts while posting the same message with the same link: "I got you a christmas present".